What is Sustainable Business?

Hello reader, and welcome.

You have probably stumbled across here due to a variety of things: you searched "sustainability", "green", or perhaps you simply were bored and decided to blog-hop.

Whatever the cause, I'm glad you are here. My hopes for you are to learn something new every day about topics ranging from sustainable business, 'clean' renewable energy, composting, recycling, going 'green', current sustainability topics, or even be opened to a new perspective - mine.

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Believe me, it's a great perspective, really. Just stick with me, alright? Especially on topics about sustainable busienss.

But wait, what is sustainable business? And why should you consider my opinion?

Let me tell you.

First sustainable busienss. What is that? Think a second - I know you can. If not, open dictionary.com and search "sustainable". Did you do that? What did it say? I bet it was something like this:

sus·tain·a·bil·i·ty

[suh-stey-nuh-bil-i-tee] -noun-

1. The ability to be sustained,  supported, upheld, or confirmed.

2. Environmental Science . the quality of not being harmful to the environment or depleting natural resources, and thereby supporting long-term ecological balance: The committee is developing sustainability standards for products that use energy.

Now that was directly taken from the site, no getting up in arms about it. Those are not my words. What are my words is this:

Sustainability is simply the way of having an item, thing, process, whatever, being so awesome it keeps going on without the help of anything else. Seems easy, right? "Why hadn't I thought of that before?"  you're thinking. Because that is not how we as humans are traditionally taught. We are taught to use what is around us at no cost. I'm sure there are exceptions, there always are. But let's continue.

So what when that term is applied to busienss? Let's here again from an official source: (No, this isn't from the wiki page)

"Sustainable business practices restore environmental quality, promote stable and healthy communities, and increase long-term profitability."

 That is right from the Aquinas College sustainable business webpage. Check them out. They were the first undergraduate school in Michigan to host such a degree. Cool huh?

So - sustainable business boils down to having a business run in ways that are positive (as well as no way negative) for the business itself, the environment, and the social units the business effects. Nifty, isn't it! Imaging if every bushiness was truly sustainable the world we would live in.

And why should you take notice of my opinion? I soon will have the degree from Aquinas College (fully, it's called a Bachelor of Science in Sustainable Business, but that's a mouthful). I'm a mere 8 credits away from having the degree, and half of those are general education credits since I attend a liberal arts school. I have a decent grasp on these topics and have debated segments of sustainable business for 3 years now. Sure I'm no Master, but hear me out.

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