Have you stopped to wonder if your neighborhood is sustainable?  As you answer this question you will be evaluating the place you live and thinking about important points that must weigh on your decision.

The vision of what constitutes a sustainable neighborhood is little known by most people.  Actually this concept is not well disseminated.   In researching other countries’ sites I found Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC-SCHL), where I learned about a very interesting proposition that determines whether a neighborhood is sustainable or not, and which virtues it must have to provide a better quality of life.  See entire post

You must have realized from the previous post that I often use the word sustainability when I write. When I talk, too. It is a very important word to me. I think it’s strategic for the future; its meaning has, and will have, ever greater relevance in human evolution. But for most people, this is not a clear concept.

So I will try to explain the concept.

According to Houaiss dictionary, sustainability is: the characteristic or condition of that which is sustainable – that can be sustained; passive to sustentation.

This is a bureaucratic definition, not conceptual. The correct definition of sustainability in its current context is an economically viable, socially fair and ecologically correct activity. This definition connotes a new perception of what sustainable means to the future of our species. It clearly states that if we do not meet the tree aspects, economic, social and environmental, we will not achieve sustainability for ourselves or the environment. See entire post

I thought of several subjects I could approach to start the blog, but I felt that anything I said would be impersonal if I didn’t introduce myself.

My name is Luiz Fernando Lucho do Valle, I was born in Porto Alegre, I’m 53 years old, I have four children, four grandchildren and a degree in civil engineering.

My intention with this blog is to help change the world. To that end I want to rouse in people an interest in sustainability, as happened to me some years ago.

In the end of 2003 I was in Guarapari in the state of Espírito Santo, sitting alone on a rock by the seashore, and I decided to take stock of my life. I thought about my origins, my family, my career and everything I had done so far. See entire post