Completed UF/IFAS Sunbelt Building
UF/IFAS Sunbelt Expo Building

Sunbelt Ag Expo 2009
October 20 - 22

2009 Theme: "Sustainability--Family, Farm, Food, Fiber, Fuel and Environment."
Sustainable Wood Energy

Picture: A sustainable energywood system  returns composted food, paper, and landscape waste that originated from fields and forests to the soil to support the next crop grown to provide goods and services for urban dwellers--and the cycle repeats"

Sustainability defined: In the simplest terms it is " the ability to maintain a process or state of any system".

In a human context sustainability involves the integration of economic, social and environmental spheres meaning "to meet the needs of                      the present without compromising the ability of the future generations to meet their own needs". which implies that stewardship of both natural                       and human resources are of prime importance. Thus laborers,  communities, consumer health and safety occupy positions along with land,                               water, air, energy, life forms and other natural resources that are vital to agriculture and other human endeavors.