Sustainability and Our Local Future by Aaron Wissner

What is sustainability? What does it mean for ourselves, our children, and the future of humanity and the planet?

In this short 10-minute video, educator Aaron Wissner explores the concept of sustainability, including a look at Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Hispaniola (Haiti & the Dominican Republic) and Tikopia (of the Solomon Islands).

Tikopia was a model for sustainability. For over 3,000 years, it's people maintained a constant, level population, and managed to avoid overshoot and collapse.

Drawing on Jared Diamond's groundbreaking book "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed", Aaron Wissner takes sustainability to the personal level.

What is sustainability? What does it mean for or local future?

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This video comes from "The International Conference on Peak Oil and Climate Change: Paths to Sustainability".

http://sustainabilityconference.org

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[giffe00]

Hey Aaron, Some very interesting speeches and I thank you for placing on Youtube. Vernon Ehlers Income, savings and inheritance energy analogy to finance was very good. Thank you for allowing use too. I might make a different opinion movie about what some of your speakers have said... I hope you allow freedom of expression.

[newculture]

I think most people are clear on what is fair to use with free media, as far as libel, slander, satire, parody, etc. are concerned.

This talk can be interpretted as a Plan B (we have time to apply technology to mantain all we have) or as Plan C (we have time to adapt our lives to a lower energy future).

I used to lean to Plan B, but after learning more about scale, flows, capital, the Hirsch Report, etc. it became clear that, as insurance & risk management, Plan C is the default position.

[joelramirezramirez]

a garden has a hill a stream comes from it and ends in a bay,at this point are wearhouses and workshops.most of the garden is an orcherd in between the trees livestock feed.behind the house is a garden were vegies grow.a dam at the head of the stream provides water for house and livestock.the sewage is biodigested,the biproduct is fuel fertalizer and recycled water,the water feeds the trees as well as hay grown in a field by the bay.

[joelramirezramirez]

bingo you are the first guy i heard say trees are the key.