Igor Chernenko – Scholarship Submission

In an effort to encourage and promote sustainability, Merida Home is offering a $1,000 scholarship to the high school student who best expresses Merida’s key theme: sustainability with style.

Igor Chernenko – Grand Junction, CO

From generation to generation, people lived along with nature using its gifts in many different ways. First, they grew food on its fertile soil; later, they built rafts from the trees. Centuries passed, progress developed and more natural resources were discovered. People quickly found ways to use environmental assets like coal, fossil fuels, and other types of minerals for the betterment of society and to make their personal lives more comfortable. However, not many people back then troubled themselves to realize that those resources were limited. As of today, mankind continues to extract natural resources from depths of the earth wastefully, not thinking about the possible consequences. Fortunately, there are people who see this as an ongoing problem and are taking the necessary actions. Moreover, there are people who mix sustainability and style in an effort to make the results of the repair process look saucy.

Sustainability is the principle by which the human needs on Earth can be met unlimitedly. It can be represented in the form of an environment with a maximized quality of life and energy conservations, and with a minimal level of pollution and degradation of nature. Sustainability is the final product for people whose efforts are directed with making life on the Earth continuous.

Reaching the point where sustainability can be seen as a practicable goal requires humans to accept the fact that it will take a tremendous amount of work to make this dream a reality. Recycling different material and creating various projects aimed toward the development of true sustainability has brought humanity closer to the desirable principle. Over the past thirty years, more and more people have begun to take action to enforce the principal of sustainability. The term has been widely developed across the planet since it was first coined and now either describes permanence of families or maintenance of sustainable practices by companies and organizations. As time passed, people have learned to combine sustainability together with style.

What does sustainability with style mean? This term means not only maintaining the continuity Earth, but also sustaining certain levels of the peculiar rareness and style of the original environment.

For me, sustainability with style can also be seen as an actual attempt to maintain sustainability while complying with the specific boundaries of style. Let’s reprogram our way of thinking and ruminate about deriving stylish benefits from actions taken toward sustainability. When people think of converting something non-renewable into something renewable, I believe that they should automatically sort out many options in their heads on how to make the end-product of that process look nifty! We should all be eager to reach sustainability with style! We can make our world look perfect and extremely chic if we are led by strong desire to do so.

Continuous attempts to reach sustainability with style may actually result in a more harmonious life on Earth. Accordingly, those attempts mingled with desire to get fashionable results could wrap our world into the mantle of creativity.