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What's it Mean to You?
Sustainable development is the hot concept in environmental policy today. It was orginally defined as "meeting the needs
of the present generation without sacrifcing the ability of fufture generations to meet their needs". There have been many
subsequent definitions, all based on some idea of preserving long term environmental quality and/or long-term cultural and
social viability.
The concept was championed by the United Nations in its global development programs leading to conservative (US) fears
of some sort of world government run by "green" socialists. Anyway, the United Nations and other governments did start
with a top down view of sustainable development projects. This has (partly) been replaced by grassroots development by small
organizations and by citizens' groups operating without much help or direction from the UN. Whether this is a desirable development
or not depend son one's ideological perspective. Nevertheless, grassroots activism seems to be the future of sustainable
development, whatever definition of it is used.
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My Background
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