What is Sustainability?

There are many definitions out there. Here are a few:

Sustainability is meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. - Brundtland Report

Sustainability is equity over time ... think of it as extending the Golden rule through time .. Do unto future generations as you would have them do unto you. - Robert Gilman

Leave the world better than you found it, take no more than you need, try not to harm life or the environment, make amends if you do. - Paul Hawken

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Our Mission

Sustainability Week aims to educate and motivate our campus community to live a more sustainable lifestyle. 

This event offers a unique opportunity to learn about issues such as sustainable food systems, green transportation and energy, waste management, composting, resource conservation, biodiversity and climate change. There will be guest speakers, panel discussions, workshops, movies, and Earth Day!

News

Th Frank Schiavo's Passive Solar Home Tour Video Showing has been canceled  04/08/09
This event has been canceled because the video editor was unable to complete the video on-time. However, the video will be finished, it just will not be shown on Wednesday, April 8th 2009. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Watershed Clean-up hosted by the Environmental Resource Center 03/16/09
Do your part and volunteer for our Watershed Clean-up event on   April 5th, 2009. Join us at  the Convergence of  Coyote Creek and Lower  Silver Creek near Hwy 101. This is a great volunteering opportunity to earn community service hours, hours for a class or if you just want to have a good time while helping the environment. Anyone who is interested should contact Christine Clark here for more details.

SJSU Earth Day is April 22nd! - 03/09/09
On April 22, the ERC will host Earth Day 2009. Earth Day 2008 had about 50 exhibitors and displays, this year the ERC hopes to do the same and better. Earth Day will be held from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm in the 7th Street Plaza on Campus at San Jose State and will include a plethora of sustainable businesses, organizations, non-profits, and government agencies who all want to show off their amazing achievements. In addition, the ERC plans to give tables to individuals who want to show off their own, do-it-yourself projects to help prove to visitors that sustainability is something that can easily become part of your own life! Come join the ERC and visit Earth Day 2009. Check out the Official Earth Day 2009 Flier!

Sustainability Week Schedule Posted! - 03/09/09
An updated tentative Sustainability Week Schedule has been posted. Visit here for full schedule.

Environmentalist Honored - 4/19/07
A yellow and black butterfly hovered above the California Bay Laurel, freshly planted on the grass behind Yoshihiro Uchida Hall in honor of San Jose State University's alumnus Gaylord Nelson -- the founder of Earth Day...

Earth Day Rocks Out - 4/18/07
Local pop-punk band Resistant Me performed for a group of middle school students at the Student Union Amphitheatre in hopes of drawing attention to the Peer Health Education's Earth Day...

Students Focus on Sustainability - 4/17/07
Climate change, unfair trade and social injustice, are they recycled ideas or inconvenient truths? San Jose State University's Sustainability Week will host four days of events dedicated to engage students both environmentally and socially...

Nobel Peace Prize Actvist Discusses Fair Trade Activism - 4/17/07
Fair trade activist and 2005 Nobel Peace Prize nominee Candi Smucker spoke to a group of five students and community members about the importance of fair trade in room 225 at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library on Monday...