Sustainability refers to using resources that can be replenished quickly, like bamboo, cork, and rubber. It is about ensuring current living does not negatively impact the future. Personal sustainability actions include recycling, using public transport, switching off electronics, and seeking grants for solar panels. Locally, one can buy local produce, use green waste centers, and support fair trade. Nationally, governments can support buses, wind farms, and solar grants. Internationally, policies aim to increase corporate responsibility and reduce disagreements between countries. Bioregionalism uses local natural materials appropriate to the ecology, economy, and culture of a region.

1. Art & design context
Sustainability
Fiona Meldrum

2. what is sustainability?
Sustainability is the ability to keep going. Things that can be re-grown and reproduced quickly are known as
sustainable materials. Examples of sustainable materials are bamboo, cork and rubber as they all grow very
quickly and can be used in a number of different ways. It is all about the future and making sure how we are
living now will affect how everything survives in the future.

3. Personal Local
Recycle at home:
newspaper
plastic bottles
Use local produce
tins/cans
Bioregionalism
leftover food
Council grants for solar panel/energy efficient boilers
clothes
Buy fair trade goods
Bioregionalism
Use public transport instead of the car
Green waste centres
Switch off electrical goods when you’re finished using them
Council empty bins every 2 weeks
Use roll on deodorant instead of aerosol
New homes should be energy efficient
Use energy efficient light bulbs
Look into getting a grant from the council for solar panels/
more efficient boilers.
National International
Government could put bus/cycle lanes in place United Nations policies
Change coal plants into wind farms etc. International policies
Grants for solar panels Corporate responsibility
Don’t buy goods from overseas Summits
Make more manual work than manufactured Americans and Chinese don’t agree

4. bioregionalism
Bioregionalism is the use of natural, local materials. People that live in bioregions are aware of the ecology,
economy and the culture of where they live and are committed to enhancing it. For example, Inuit people use ice
blocks to make igloos because it is their natural, local source material. Norwegians use timber for their houses
because there are plenty of forests around to source the wood locally.

5. recycling

6. bibliography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainability 06/03/2012
http://www.advanced-infrastructure.com/content/sustainable-infrastructure-
06/03/2012
role-innovation-computing-and-emerging-technology-sustainability
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http://www.olliesworld.com/ 13/03/2012
http://lebendig.org/bioregion.htm#what 13/03/2012