What is ecological sustainability ?
This is essentially what the Green movement is all about. Ecological sustainability means that whatever activity is taking place must be able to continue virtually forever. This can only happen if the activity does not ‘use up’ or otherwise destroy any of the lifeforms or resources which exist where the activity takes place, or–more particularly–on which the activity relies in order to continue. For example, the lumber industry is sustainable when trees are selectively cut down, thus allowing the habitat for thousands of species to remain intact–and for the forest to continue so you can come back and cut down more trees. Clear-cutting is not sustainable as it destroys the habitat for all those species and removes all the trees. “Where” something takes place can be as broad as the entire globe since some of our actions can affect the earth as a whole (such as the release of green house gases which cause overall global warming). Sustainable tourism is the same idea applied to the tour
Ecological sustainability is the ability of a living system, such as an ocean, to exist in such a way that natural processes can support all forms of life in a healthy, continuous way. A sustainable system is a closed-loop system — it uses what it has over and over again. In the business environment, sustainability means creating products, processes, and services that follow the same kind of life cycle as that of the natural world. Part of YSI’s vision of ecological sustainability is to reduce its impact on the earth’s resources and help others to reduce their impact on ecosystems by providing the right tools.
