What is Sustainability? 🌍

Sustainability is a word we hear often nowadays, and I mention it and use it to describe things in my posts a lot, however I've never really properly told you what it is, so that's what this post is going to be about! 

The dictionary definition of sustainability is: the ability to be maintained at a certain rate or level, or avoidance of the depletion of natural resources in order to maintain an ecological balance. To me, sustainability is something that doesn't have a large impact on the environment, or is able to replenish itself in a lifetime. For example, using biomass for renewable energy is sustainable, because as you cut down trees to burn for electricity, you plant them at the same time (that's the easy explanation, it's of course a bit more complicated than that). 

There are three types (or pillars) of sustainability, though: social, economic and environmental - and these are often used in businesses.

• Social. This type of sustainability focuses on promoting equality on respect for everyone's rights
• Economic. This focuses on thinking that if you reduce the consumption, you reduce the cost. Reusing and recycling products will help doing so.
• Environmental. This pillar centralises on preserving natural resources and reducing our carbon footprints. 

Thank you so much for reading this post, I hope you found it helpful. Feel free to ask any questions if you think I've missed anything. See you next Sunday.

Violet

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