Sustainability + Me
Sustainability + Me
Transcript
To me sustainability entails a lifestyle that promotes compassion and respect.
To me sustainability is an awareness.
When I think of sustainability, I think of making educated decisions.
Ray Jensen: Sustainability is not an afterthought at ASU. Sustainability is one of our core values. As a core value, it permeates everything that we do. We wanna make sure that the decisions that we make at ASU are environmentally sound, they’re fiscally sound and they’re socially responsible.
Ellen Newell: I think it’s very important for ASU ‘cause it’s the wave of the future, it’s how we have to live. I think it’s very important for us to lead by example and to show people, teach people the new way to live.
Michael McCleod: Sustainability is important to everyone; individuals, institutes, companies, nations, the world. I think the real question here is why is ASU important to sustainability. The answer to that is leadership.
Michael Ochs: When I think of sustainability, I think of us making educated decisions regarding how we use our natural resources and both improve the quality of our life. When you think about it, it’s also understanding how those decisions may impact the environment that we live in and the limited resources that we have.
Keven Shaffer: It’s one thing that I’ve looked forward to for the past 20 years and it’s the first time I’ve got to experience it, is having support in recycling, having support in energy conservations, from the highest level to the lowest level.
Ronald Briggs: It’s important to ASU because being the fact we are the new American university. It’s kind of like our charge and our responsibility to set that example to not only just the students here at ASU, but the community, nationally and globally.
Mary Hyduke: ASU is like a city. We have to think of the past, present and future inhabitants. We need to especially think of our students and think of their future.
Gina Webber: I have a granddaughter and I wanna make sure she has a planet that is going to support her and that we don’t in our quest to get all our wants and needs for us that we don’t ruin our planet for them.
Ray Humbert: I asked my 14-year-old son what does it mean to be sustainable. He said that you have to work within the goals of the world.
Michael Crow: ASU and sustainability, it’s really simple. We’re teachers, we’re learners, we’re together, we’ve got to make the world a more sustainable place in many, many ways. We need to start right here at the university. In what we do as individuals, how we operate as an institution, how we teach, how we learn about how to be sustainable, that’s what it’s all about. It’s through the individual efforts of each and every individual person.
Ray Jensen: This doesn’t take just a couple of people to pull something like this off. It takes an entire community to recognize that they’ve got a role. It’s you and me.
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Plus me, plus you.
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The above transcript provided by Landmark Associates.