A good working definition of sustainability comes from Paul Hawkens The Ecology of Commerce. He says sustainability can be defined in terms of carrying capacity of the ecosystem, and described with input-output models of energy and resource consumption. In addition, it is an economic state where the demands placed upon the environment by people and commerce can be met without reducing the capacity of the environment to provide for future generations.I separated the sustainability strategy of Timeless Seeds into three parts: the economic sustainability, the energy/environmental sustainability, and the community sustainability. The economic sustainability of the company is beyond the scope of my project so I will address the energy/environmental and community sustainability of the company. From Orion Afield, the question was posed, ...what do our buildings say about the way we relate to each other, or to the landscape that looms outside? This addresses the two major pieces of the sustainability strategy: the energy/environmental sustainability and the community sustainability. The second part of the question is really about defining the Timeless ecosystem, stepping away to look at the greater natural ecosystem and determining how the two interact and relate. Should Timeless impact be negative, part of the strategy will be to re-create the way its products are processed and how the plant operates, so that in the end, it mimics natural systems. This is called a restorative economy where a business assess what it takes from the environment, what it makes, and what it wastes in order to create a symbiosis of company, customer, and ecology. A restorative economy consists of a business community that coevolves with the natural and human communities it serves.

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