What can you and your family do to be a part of the Sustain "Ability” solution?
There are countless opportunities to make meaningful efforts toward responsible, conscientious choices that will preserve our quality of life today and for generations to come. Links throughout this Web site will show you easy steps toward becoming part of the Sustain "Ability" solution.

All Sarasota County residents have the ABILITY to reap the rewards of a stewardship approach to environmental, economic and social issues.

What is Sustain "Ability"?
Principles of Sustain "Ability"
Today’s choices influence the tomorrow we will all inherit. To achieve the balance necessary for a sustainable community, our choices must be:

• Economically viable: we have to be able to afford them, today and tomorrow.
• Environmentally sound: they should have no negative impact on the environment.
• Socially equitable: they should be accessible to all groups, without favoring one class over another.

Make Sustain "Ability" fun. Get the whole family involved. It is much easier to achieve – and to teach - Sustain "Ability" at that scale. For instance, what does reduce, reuse, recycle mean to you? To your family?

Why Sustain "Ability" is important
Our appetites as consumers are often much greater than our planet’s capacity to support those appetites. We see all around us that climate change is real. We know we cannot continue to alter the forces of nature without devastating effects. We need to discover new ways to respect and work with nature more effectively.

As individuals, we can make these changes one choice at a time. The products we buy, the cars we drive, the places we choose to live and work and play all influence tomorrow’s possibilities.