Community Involvement

When you hear the term community, what do you think of? Your neighborhood The school district? Anything in-between? How about the human-built environment in which we get our needs met? That's taken from Dr. Tueth's book. Yet for many Aquinas College sustainable business students community includes more than just our buildings, transportation and communication systems, retail businesses, service establishments, and the people who live around us.



What about the natural world? Where does our environment come in? That's why in sustainable business we go a step further to include the natural world. Why? Well why not! The natural world is, after all, the sole provider of our food, oxygen, natural beauty, accustomed to climate and many more benefits we as humans take for granted every day.



Expanding our general idea of community to include the natural world does much for us. It makes us look at the natural world as something to be included in our daily lives, a responsibility (if a steward) or our companion (if a kin). It makes us shift our priorities to extend past our personal lives but to care and consider others.