We offer you our definition of sustainability: to us, it means keeping everything on your own site.  Your "site" may be your home, or it may be your town, or your county, or your watershed.  We also like a definition based on Teddy Roosevelt's statement, "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

In any event, the idea is to keep everything within the boundaries of what you call your "site": energy generation, waste management, and food production are some obvious elements of the "everything" that we think you should try to keep at home.

Following are some definitions of the terms used under the topic of sustainability.

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Local - Politically, "local" might be defined by the following possible entities: (1) neighboring incorporated cities and villages  such as Sandusky, Huron, Milan, Castalia, Vermilion, Bellevue, and Norwalk, (2) Unincorporated townships with an emerging central identity, (3) All of Erie County, and the counties adjacent, (4) All of Ohio House District 80, (5) All of the 9th Congressional District of the United States.

Some advocates of locally-grown, or "home-grown", food suggest that "local" might be defined as food grown within 100 miles of you, as the crow flies.

By watersheds, "local" might be defined to first include the watersheds of streams discharging through Sandusky, Ohio, which would include (1) Pipe Creek, (2) Mills Creek, (3) Cold Creek, (4) Hemminger Ditch, and (5) Plum Brook.

Extending the watershed concept of "local", we might choose to include the entire watershed of the Sandusky River, the entire watershed of the Huron River, and the entire watershed of the Vermilion River.

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