What Eco Means to Me
What is Eco? What is the definition? And what does it mean to me?
I have always been interested in the environment and what I can do, as one person, to reduce the pollution of the planet. But, I have always thought about it from an individual prospective. What can I do to minimize my impact? Of course, I can try to to reuse and recycle as much as possible. I can turn off lights and electronics when I am not using them.
Since I began my internship at Sun a month ago, I have started to think about Eco and how it relates to environmental impact from a different prospective. I have always thought it is important for companies (and all other organizations) to operate in an Eco Responsible manner, but now I have started to contemplate why. I have also started to consider in more detail what Eco Responsibility encompasses and the possible consequences for an organization that is un-Eco.
When I looked up Eco at Dictionary.com it returned six entries. The definition that most fit my thoughts about Eco is this: "concerned with living things in relation to their environment" (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/eco). My understanding or interpretation of this definition is: To act in an Eco Responsible manner a person, company, or organization must be conscious of the impact of their actions on the environment and act so as to minimize the negative affects of this impact. Of course, in a perfect world, humans would have no negative impact on the earth. But that is not really what Eco means to me. Instead I look at the idea of becoming an Eco Responsible individual or organization as a process. To me it is a process of changing the way we do things to reduce an individual's or organization's impact on the environment. This a process of change, curiousity, learning, innovation, and more change.
Because
I consider this a process and a learning experience, I am constantly
looking for or thinking about new ideas. I look forward to
learning ideas about and finding new ways to be Eco.
