Sustainability is an abstract idea that is not yet clearly understood. Consequently many of the initiatives that are today called 'sustainable', are at best, only minimisations of ecological impact.
Too much of what has been promoted as 'green' in the last decades has involved "sustaining the unsustainable", making fundamentally unsustainable activities moderately less ecologically impacting. Less worse is not necessarily better.
Sustainments are mechanisms for betterment, because every sustainment involves a judgement about what is and is not worth sustaining.
Sustainments are concrete initiatives that aim to promote and sustain change toward more sustainable ways of living and working. No sustainment is, by itself, 'sustainable'. Rather, sustainments are contributions to the development of sustainability as a concept and a realised way of living and working. Sustainments design more sustainable lifestyles and workpractices. To introduce you to the idea of sustainments, we can explain:
- how we came to realise that there was a need for this notion.
- what current environmental initiatives are not yet sustainments
- what current environmental initiatives are nearly sustainments
- the thinking behind the idea of sustainments