The round-tripped math: In pro of Personal Sustainability Practices (PSP)

Some time ago when researching how empathy and good leadership are linked, I came across an interview to Adam Werbach (Global CEO of Saatchi and Saatchi) about Sustainability Strategies for Business [video].

Sustainability, according to Adam Werbanch, is a way to meet the needs of current generations without scarifying the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. In other words, being sustainable is to try to save today's resources, not exhaust them, so that your children would have a way to survive in this World tomorrow.

Furthermore, he talks of Personal Sustainability Practices (PSP) among corporation's employees, which are simple ways to bring sustainability into our every-day lives, they are simple things we can do that are good for us, good for the Planet and for our community, simple things such as riding a bike instead of using your automobile or an organic meal once in a while :).

By then, I thought (wrongly) how can we understand Sustainability and care of our Planet, when we have not yet fully understood the importance of manage our emotional life and taking care of others. Soon, I realized that all these should be understood altogether, or perhaps, before trying to understand our emotions and others, we first need to guarantee, simply, that we can live ...

So going back to the basics, what we need to live? Sun, water and clean air. For those, who have forgotten, including me, it is an obvious rounded trip, as the elder native American Floyd Red Crow Westerman has put it:

"Over 95% of our bodies is water ... our DNA is made from the same DNA as the tree, the tree breaths what we exhale, when the tree exhales, we need what the tree exhales, so we have a common destiny with the tree ..." [video]


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Yes, indeed a common destiny we have. Incredibility, I knew this long time ago, but there were his words which struck directly into my heart and made me realized that most of the time I take our Planet for granted. Despite the equation is very simple and that we, all, have learned it since we were at elementary school, it seems that most of us have forgotten it.

Some one recently told me why to worry and distress for things we cannot change? ... such kind of thinking makes me sometimes disappointed, and some others angry, and some others loose faith:( ... but, but ... lucky me, there is always some light coming on my way :), and it happens that I hear or read of people trying to make a change for a better World to live in. Then, I believe again, I believe that change is possible. So ... to make those extraordinary people's endeavors worthier, I have decided to care more, why not today do some PSP?