Who Are We?

Students For Sustainability is an organization of Ithaca College students dedicated to promoting the principles of sustainability through education and action on campus and in the broader community.

Vision Statement: Students for Sustainability provides unity and support for the sustainability movement, and is a catalyst for establishing Ithaca College as a national leader of sustainability in higher education.

Check out our Mission Statement, under the "learn" tab for a more complete description of our goals.

What is Sustainability?

Sustainability is about satisfying our current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own. Simply put, sustainability is living within Earth's limitations.

Right now we are living unsustainably. We are depleting our natural resources faster than they can be replenished; more people suffer from poverty, hunger, and disease than ever before; and our current economic system of development encourages these trends.

This calls for a new kind of development: Sustainable Development.

The United Nations has declared 2005-2014 as the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. This statement is proof that we are at the beginning of a new economic, social, and ecological era, and recognizes the central role of education in sustianable development.