Being Green
Sustainability
What is sustainability?
Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
—World Commission on the Environment and Development
True sustainable development requires an intermixing of four main objectives:
- Social progress that takes into account the needs of everyone
- Protection of the natural environment
- Careful and considered use of natural resources
- Steady and increasing levels of economic growth and employment
Escalating costs of energy, shrinking supplies of fresh water, and global climate change are a few examples of areas to which Wisconsin and the United States need to pay increased attention regarding our use of natural resources and the way in which our business practices impact human welfare.
We believe that the Bachelor of Science in Sustainable Management program is a critical step toward educating the workers and leaders of the future in how to achieve global and local sustainable communities, environments, and businesses.
If you want one year of prosperity, plant corn.
If you want ten years of prosperity, plant trees.
If you want one hundred years of prosperity, educate people.
—Chinese proverb