Center for Sustainable Design
We are a group of students and faculty from Mississippi State University who believe that, as a species, we must learn to "live within our means" on earth. Inordinate use of non-renewable resources and irresponsible disposal of wastes are simply not fair to the generations that will follow us. Our technological development coupled with our growing population has given us the capacity to inflict great damage on the natural systems which sustain us. That same technological development, coupled with creativity and imagination, has given us the capacity to understand and adapt natural systems to meet many of our needs. As a species, we will continue to grow in numbers for the foreseeable future. Consequently "development" (i.e., the creation of systems and structures to meet our needs) will continue. Our job is to develop, systematize, and promulgate the methods that will allow the inevitable to coexist with the essential.
