When we talk about sustainability, one of theapproaches respect to levels of analysis, studies and application. Are The 03Levels of Sustainability: the individual level, the corporation level and thesociety level. Subject discussed previously on this blog.Another approach to the subject is done throughits dimensions or its pillars for analysis, studies and application. Are The 06Pillars of Sustainability considered by this blogger: economic, environmental,social, cultural, aesthetic and political. All of them discussed earlier on theblog.Levels and columns cross each other. Thus, foreach level of analysis, there is a distinct interaction with each pillar. Today I would like to introduce a new concept:the 02 Vectors of Sustainability, which are the drivers to run the subject sustainabilitywithin corporations, or individuals or society. They are responsible for thesustainability flows and take shape within each level. They are which make theagents realize the gain opportunities to invest in sustainability. They createa virtuous circle within each agent.The 02 vectors, which I am speaking, are the EthicsVector and the Efficiency Vector.Without ethical and without efficiency there isno sustainability. One can not exists without the other one. It does not helpbe efficient if we have no ethics, and it does not work be ethical withoutbeing efficient. These 02 vectors go together. And, when applied, generate avirtuous cycle of results.Take for example my country, Brazil. Land of largedimensions and wealth, with a good climate, soil and topography, with a largedomestic market, plenty of workers, without natural disaster of majorproportions and many other positives aspects. But this country, with all thesepositives points, presenting all the conditions to appear among the majorpowerful countries in the world, can not advance compared to other ones.And this is due, from my point of view, becausethe 02 Vectors of Sustainability does not work in the country.The British magazine The Economist, in April2014, said that the total productivity of the country, as measured by theefficiency with which capital and labor are used, is at a level below theproductivity of 1960 (!!!). Also according to the magazine, between 1990 and2012, labor productivity accounted for 40% of the Brazilian GDP growth,compared to 91% in China and 67% in India. Clearly, the vector of efficiencydoes not work in my country.As to the Ethics Vector, our public authoritiesare always involved in scandals and shady dealings. From local authorities tothe highest spheres of the nation. Apparently, all that is public in Brazil istreated for private benefit of people or groups who can come to power, evenlocal or national power.In 2014 we had the condemnation of 24 peopleinvolved in the scandal called mensalao (monthly allowance), a purchasescheme of parliamentary votes that moved a few hundred million dollars.Just when we thought the sentences could havebeen the beginning of a "new ethics era" for the country, we arewitnessing another scandal, even greater, the so-called "petrolao"(petroleum allowance), which changed the level of this type of corruption froma million scale to a scale of billion dollars. Investigations of"petrolao" follow in progress, with dozens of companies,institutions, businessmen and politicians being investigated, some of themalready arrested.Thus, without ethics and without efficiency,Brazil keeps stopped in time. A country without sustainability.Within the