Welcome to the Vinyl 2010 Sustainable Thinking Platform

A common theme in all sustainability issues is INEQUITY. Through my essay, I have shown how various existing gaps, whether they are: a) Demand/Supply b) Production/Consumption c) Developing/Developed Country d) Technology/Income can be overcome, if there is direct youth participation. It is important, I feel, to re-question accepted wisdom on how, what and how much we consume. I also believe that as young people, we can influence sustainable production more directly.

Today’s consumption is undermining the environmental resource base. In order to make this dream of a ‘Green Prosperous World’ come true, we will have to rely on our most valuable asset, the youth. Many of the best ideas come from young minds; the youth is, and must be, the builder of a new society.

To wake up at 5 am and spend next 4 hours riding through streets of a big city in a dust car, to spend 8 hours every Saturday on sorting waste in municipal sorting plant, to meet with friends at a huge students music festival just to organize waste collection – impossible when you’re young and so many parties is waiting for you? “Impossible is nothing” to a group of students from Poland, a group of young people who can became great example of how can young people all over the globe contribute to the promotion of sustainable behaviors.