Sustainability is one of the world's biggest buzzwords. It generally means leaving the planet in as good a shape as we found it. Dealing with issues of the vast scope involved, individuals can quickly find themselves overwhelmed. Delving a bit more deeply into the word itself, answers begin to emerge.
Sustainability begins with considering the sources of our everyday sustenance.
It is the great and grave irony of this age of industry and technology that what provides us with personal sustenance often erodes the sustainability of the planet. That contradiction leaves us, if we acknowledge it, with a sense of psychic discomfort and fragmentation. Reconnecting sustenance with sustainability is key not only to environmental health, but also to our own psychological well-being. To illustrate how sustenance and sustainability can connect at the scale of a single life, I offer how the search for sustainability enters my everyday. And it is a search, an exploration, far from a completed project.