WHAT IS SUSTAINABILITY NOW?

Balancing elements, needs & resources?

Nature is sustainable & constantly recycling & changing is obvious in weather & geology, but invisible in microcosmos of microbes, soil, worms, DNA, insects, dust, sea life & most non-visible radiation & magnetic frequencies we can feel?

SUSTAINBABLE means continuing something that’s long lasting. But is it renewable like soil or limited like minerals? And how long it functions? how & for what costs & benefits, needs & results? Who & what needs does it serve, fill or hurt in its intended design functions, or accidental consequences? Who designed, built, set up, improved & maintains the system? at what costs? To us & nature? With what secret &or public purposes & effecting the local environment & all beings using & contacting its output, production & pollution on all levels hurting or killing what? How durable is the dystem? How long does a chemical last sustain in the environment? Minutes to months to centuries?

Business, government, industry & military use predicted & planned techy “sustainable” systems to last as long as the plan for it, with planned obsolete synthetic designs, enforced monopoly, replaced by bigger, better & faster or smaller models for ever-more profit in their future controlled from top down. They assume sustaining their income, profits, expanding progress & controlling technology hidden by trade secrets, intellectual property & patents, fences, locks & guards. Wasteful mass-production with terrible ecological damage, are & ignored & denied by: “dillusion (in air, food, waters, bodies & ground) is the solution to pollution” (hiding their shit) form us hurt by it. “What you can’t see won’t hurt you” unless we contact it, us suckers who buy techno goodies for fun living for taste now & security in utopian science-fiction futures sustaining civilization dreams & lies.

In natural cooperative evolving together we come from local needs & nature, markets for healthy people & homes. Designers from grass root community work to fill real organic needs with local natural resources from our bioregion, These green systems are inspiring, filling & nourishing our simple needs, like plants fed by soil, weather & compost fermenting biomass making more soil.

Is sustainability healthy? Efficient? Fun? Democratic? Honest? & fair?, open or secret business? Serving local life & nature? honestly about causes & effects in our whole system? Is it divided into separate depts or open process of connecting workers to leaders in community supporting it, learning how & why it functions with what resources from where? Are the sources renewable, or limited to how much or long? Can we renew the sources like waters flowing thru our watershed? Grow more healthy trees for feeding our watershed, protecting wildlife & growing bush foods, fish populations, & balancing whole biosphere seasons cycles. 4-08