What is the Sustainability Hub?

The Sustainablity Hub is a student organization with the mission of outreaching about campus sustainability, reducing Cornell's environmental impact, and uniting other campus organizations to collaborate on different projects.

See Current Projects to learn about the Hub's current work; check out past issues of Campus Sustainability News to learn about past projects; or read entries in the Sustainable Ithaca Blog to get the latest buzz about sustainability at Cornell!

What is Sustainability?

The concept of sustainability is very broad and difficult to define, since it touches on all aspects of life here on Earth.

In 1987, the Brundtland Commisions of the United Nation defined sustainability as "meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."

Since then, others have defined sustainability as a goal to be reached by working equally towards environment, society, and economy. An ideal plan for sustainability would benefit the environment, improve the lives of humans, and make money at the same time. Many have pictured this in a venn diagram, with sustainability as the intersection between these three ideas.