The Sustainability Initiative stands with Black, Indigenous, and Communities of Color in demanding an end to racist systems and structures, and to targeted violence against Black Americans.
Our vision of sustainability encompasses more than just the environment. We believe true sustainability is complex, taking into account socio-political, economic, and personal factors.
This requires the prioritization of social and environmental justice.
We all must push the dimensions that are essential to sustainability, and expand the global conversation beyond any narrow conceptions that exist today.
As an Initiative team, we commit to taking responsibility for our own privileges and the limitations of our lived experiences. We will work hard to educate ourselves and practice humility, knowing that we will make mistakes along the way and that we must hold ourselves accountable to them. From that place, we will contribute what we can to efforts that empower and elevate those too often left out.
As we all face another moment of reckoning in our country and world, we must take seriously our capacity to be leaders.
What we do, not just what we say, matters.
In solidarity,
The Sustainability Initiative
