Bachelor of Science in Sustainable Business [The Three Legged Stool]

So as I said yesterday, I am very close to achieving my Bachelor degree in SB. Unless you visited the Aquinas Website you probably still have no idea what this degree is. Don't worry, I get this question a lot.

What does it mean?

Easy, it's a business degree that incorporates not only the success of the business, but also benefits the environmental and social aspects of who/what/where/etc the business effects.


Overall the classes I take involve many environmental science and biology classes, basic intro to business and management, a year of accounting, a total of 3 Capstone classes (otherwise known as the highest class level in that string of classes: 2 for sustainability and 1 for business), as well as many newly designed courses for sustainability, energy, and sustainable business itself. My favorite has been a course called Sustainable Energy Systems. We went though traditional energy sources then migrated towards renewable and sustainable energy (yes, there is a difference. Perhaps I'll spend a whole week talking about that topic)

In fact, perhaps I'll spend quite a few posts discussing just what I've done in each non-basic, not-an-intro-course-or-traditional-if-I-say-"accounting"-you-know-what-I-mean course.

Does the degree of sustainable business make more sense now? At least a little? A business degree with social and environmental segments added in and made just as important. The image of a three legged stool is used commonly by my Professors and fellow students when we try to describe and clarify how the three fit in.

Wooden three-legged-stool - of SCIENCE

There are three stool legs, all of equal length, thickness, and hopefully of weight support. If you were to take off one of those stool legs the chair would fail to be a chair. It would be a pile of wood, plastic, metal, cardboard, whatever the chair is made of. Each leg is just as important than the other. Without the set everything falls apart.

Therefore the business aspect is just as important as the environmental aspect which cannot be complete without the social aspect. A = B = C, or should we say B = E = S?