What is sustainability? The usual definition is something that meets the needs of the present, yet doesn't hurt future generations' ability to meet their needs. We're more likely to create a sustainable future if we can imagine what it would look like, but few have tried to paint a visual picture of this goal. Until now.

A new project by the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA), called "Images of Sustainability," is being assembled as part of the upcoming Building Energy conference in March of 2005.

NESEA is inviting anyone interested to submit photos that give living examples of their view of sustainability to the conference website. The photos will be displayed as a continuously running slide show in a special room at the conference in March.

Visions of Sustainability will be an open source project. The website will remain live after the conference, and NESEA will encourage people to continue submitting photos that help flesh out the vision.

The project will also reinforce the conference's title theme: The Practice of Sustainability: Art, Science, Business.

12/17/2004