Off the Map

For me, the definition of sustainability is much different from the definition in a book. What I learned from a previous environmental class was much more than recycling or being conscious of where food comes from or how much water one uses each week. Sustainability for me is literally disappearing. It's not leaving your trace on the environment. It's much like reducing your carbon "foot print", only you are reducing other traces of yourself as well.

The idea is to reduce consumption and for a community to share its resources to help each other out. The land provides us with much of the nutrients we need, and we can use those natural resources to fuel natural growth of the environment back. This process might as well eliminate the need for huge grocery stores that require so much energy to run and keep foods fresher, maintaining large quantities of produce to be wasted when expired. This is just on example of "disappearing" and "living off the map". Sustainability means an overall lifestyle change for the individual and a community too.