Food and Sustainability

 Do you know what that mean sustainability?

Sustainability refers to the ability of being able to sustain themselves, without outside help and without exhausting resources.

Healthy ecosystems provide goods and services to humans and other organisms. There are two major ways of reducing negative human impact and enhancing ecosystem services.

An interesting example of a sustainability is a project in Mexico, the subway runs powered by biogas energy generated with trash. In 2003, a partnership with a German company started to harvest the methane gas produced by the natural process of decomposition in landfills. Normally this gas gets into the atmosphere as pollution, and as a greenhouse gas, methane contributes to global warming. This project is sustainable because it can keep being beneficial, without outside help and without exhausting the resources necessary for operation.

About the video, Food forests are at the heart of Permaculture and they’re quickly becoming a hot topic in many areas of debate as people realize their full potential. Let's face it, with all our consuming global problems, there aren't many natural solutions out there that can halt & reverse deforestation, stabilize the climate, solve poverty & extreme hunger all in one hit, isn’t it? Even though this is exactly what the food forest is capable of, and provided people understand it and are at the centre of the system, they can go on living off that land forever. It is very difficult mainly because there is no culture that allows it to be developed, maybe when people have a conscience that the resources can run low, and they teach their children that they must take care the planet, maybe in that moment will can implement projects like this.