How did the Task Force define sustainability and use that definition in planning for a sustainable future?
The work of the Task Force began with the ethical premise that, for sustainability to be both meaningful and enduring, the vision for sustainability (and its accompanying action plan) had to be organic. Task Force members agreed that we could not isolate ourselves in a room and create a definition and a plan that would endure. We saw ourselves as facilitators of a community-wide conversation that would result in consensus around what sustainability is at Evergreen, and how we would labor toward it. Without that consensus or common definition, we also knew that we would never galvanize the needed institutional support for our initiatives to go forward. So, we decided to engage our community in a broad-based conversation on sustainability.
