Principles of sustainability

ECOLOGICAL sustainability

• Sup­port of bio­di­ver­sity and the work­ing ecosys­tems.
• Adap­ta­tion of hu­man ac­tiv­i­ties on nat­u­ral re­sources and the nat­u­ral re­silience.
• Sus­tain­able use of nat­u­ral re­sources and eq­ui­table  shar­ing.

SOCIAL sustainability

• Eq­ui­table dis­tri­bu­tion of well-be­ing and the meet­ing of the ba­sic needs also for the fu­ture gen­er­a­tions.
• The pos­si­bil­ity of par­tic­i­pa­tion and the re­spon­si­bil­ity in de­ci­sion mak­ing.
• Per­sonal life man­age­ment, re­spon­si­bil­ity and the pur­suit of sus­tain­able ways of life.

ECONOMICAL sustainability

• The growth is not based on debt or dis­posal of goods.
• Con­nect­ing the en­vi­ron­men­tal and the eco­nomic ideas in de­ci­sion mak­ing.
• Eco­nom­i­cally ef­fi­cient as well as en­vi­ron­men­tally sound op­er­a­tion.

CULTURAL sustainability

• Preser­va­tion of cul­tural di­ver­sity.
• The pro­mo­tion of in­ter­cul­tural in­ter­ac­tion.
• Cul­tural knowl­edge, val­u­a­tion and cul­tural iden­tity.
• Plu­ral­ism and tol­er­ance.

Nature is Speaking

“Mother Nature: If we lose her, we lose a stable climate”

Our food, our wa­ter, our liveli­hoods — they all come from na­ture. But we’re tak­ing more than our share.

What’s more, we’re de­stroy­ing our best de­fense against a chang­ing cli­mate — be­cause na­ture it­self is at the heart of the most im­me­di­ate and ef­fec­tive so­lu­tions to curb­ing green­house gas emis­sions and in­creas­ing our re­silience to ex­treme weather events.

The chal­lenges fac­ing na­ture’s oceans, rivers and forests af­fect us all — and sav­ing na­ture is the only way to save our­selves. (Con­ser­va­tion.org)

See the video about Mother Na­ture by Con­ser­va­tion.org