We believe that we all want the same things: access to clean air and water; economic opportunities; a safe and healthy place to raise their kids; shelter; lifelong learning; a sense of community; and the ability to have a say in the decisions that affect their lives. So does it throughout the world.
We do projects in a sustainable way, it takes into account, and addresses, multiple human needs, not just one at the exclusion of all others. We take a long-term perspective – focusing on anticipating and adapting to change in both the present and future.
We manage our human, natural, and financial capital to meet current needs while ensuring that adequate resources are available for future generations.
When we come to sustainability we tend to think of renewable fuel sources, reducing carbon emissions, protecting environments, and a way of keeping the delicate ecosystems of our planet in balance.
We look to protect our natural environment, human and ecological health while driving innovation and not compromising our way of life.
It’s vital that we develop new, cleaner technologies to cope with our energy demands but sustainability is not just about the environment.
With emerging technologies and the improvement of older cleaner fuel sources, many people now look to a post fossil fuel world – including businesses. Since a few decades ago the world has experienced unprecedented growth including intensive farming, a technological revolution and a massive increase in our power needs putting even greater pressure and strain on the planet’s resources. We knew about the problems of the greenhouse effect and the destruction of the ozone layer and coming very late in the century, an awareness of the notion that some of our resources – particularly fossil fuels – were finite and that we should make efforts to move to renewable methods of power. We are also far more aware of the plight of the developing world and that facing our planet as we now observe both natural and human-caused disasters and the effects that these can have on the ecosystems and on human population.