Sustainability means a lot to me in several different ways, especially since exploring the idea in different capacities in this course. Before this course, sustainability mainly only made me think of "going green" and looking for new sources of energy. However, in exploration, I have found that sustainability can be addressed in almost any venue or interest.

Wikipedia defines sustainability as "a characteristic of a process or state that can be maintained at a certain level indefinitely." However, I feel that in many ways this undermines the very basis of what sustainability actually is. I think that sustainability means to continually CHANGE the current state in order to improve it.

And yet, isn't humanity sustainable just in how we are created? We have been given these complex minds that are programmed to question and strive for improvement. So even as our society is rapidly consuming non-renewable resources (oil, coal, etc.), when sources run dangerously low, our nature will be to look for more possibilities. This means that our very nature is to sustain ourselves.

In exploring sustainable education in my sustainable keyword search, I found that the whole idea in the area of education is centered around compelling children and students to QUESTION the world around them and make it better. This means to change it and modify when necessary.

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