Absolute Sustainability

Engineers focussing on Sustainability Engineering will have to understand how the Community, Business, and Individuals combine Technological and Human Development to maximize their Actualized Quality of Life.  They may not be designing Human Development initiatives, but they have to understand how their work interacts with Human Development.

Definitions are really important.  This short article covers all of the definitions required, to be able to allow communication between Human Development professionals and Technological Development professionals.

The Graph  of the Resource/Time is fairly simple, but it provides a fair amount of nuanced understanding of any community.

Communities  focus on finding the low-hanging fruit that improves the quality of life of the community and increases resilience.

Businesses will focus their CSR activities to finding ways to help the communities achieve it’s goals.  A business that isn’t acting in the best interest of the community it exists as part of is using CSR as a marketing tool, not a means to focus their business activities where the most impact is possible.