As the general population becomes more aware of our environmental challenges and the emerging energy crisis certain words have become popular in the media.  Not too many years ago words like sustainable, green or renewable would bring snickers from people who thought the environmental movement and search for alternative energy sources were just hoaxes perpetuated by those with purely political agendas.  Not anymore.  Just about everywhere you look in media and advertising people are talking green and sustainability.

One unfortunate side effect of having meaningful words become marketing buzzwords is that what these words mean and represent is often lost in a barrage of advertising and shallow quasi-news reporting.

The words sustainable and sustainability are powerful words with meaning that reveals great wisdom for the future of humankind.  It is important that we preserve the power of these words to help us understand what we must do to provide a high quality of life in the years ahead.  It would be tragic to be seduced by the spin doctors that because we put a green or sustainable label on something that we are properly addressing our long-term challenges.

With as many leaders that we have and have had in the past, we still have a lack of knowledge in regard to some of the values that they stand for. There have been so many different admirable Women and Men who have given us the answers to a wide variety of the problems that we still have today but for some reason we lack the ability to maintain what some have given their lives for. Nobel Peace Prize winners have showed us what a true clear conscientious state of mind is but for some reason we have more people who don't listen or say that they don't care than people who do listen and say otherwise. Non-Violence is the act of Love.

    Dr. Martin Luther King stated clearly that the ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in time of comfort and convenience but in times of trials and tribulations. I believe that this statement is essentially authentic to his knowledge and to the life that he lived. I also believe that if we listen to those who are thought of as people who live with the values that most of us believe to be true, we won't be adding oil to flames of violence that comes from the essential values of hatried. So, in conclusion I will say that Non-Violence is the water that will stop the flame, because flames over flames only create intense tragedy.