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these are my recommendations for revising the article: Micro-sustainability


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Sustainability as a whole is the idea of individuals attaining their needs without diminishing the planet for future use. Micro-sustainability is centered around small scale environmental measures that ultimately affect the environment through a larger cumulative impact. Micro-sustainability centers on individual efforts, behavior modification, education and creating attitudinal changes, which result in an environmentally conscious individual. '''Micro-sustainability promotes changes through change agents. Change agents are people who are encouraged to support positive environmental measures locally and inside their sphere of influence. Examples of micro-sustainability include recycling, power saving, water conservation, using less gasoline, and having conscious buying habits that help to reduce waste.''' The emphasis of micro-sustainability is on an individual's actions, rather than organizational or institutional practices. These small local level actions have immediate community benefits if undertaken on a widespread scale and if imitated, they have a cumulative broad impact.

In contrast to micro-sustainability, the remaining large-scale plans for sustainability, are categorized under the term macro-sustainability. Macro-sustainability is a form of sustainability where the definition has been modified to fit the context of the area in which the contributions are taking place. Macro-sustainability is a large systematic addressing of sustainability in most cases by the United Nations, governments, multi-national corporations or smaller companies. They discuss global issues including climate change, and reliance upon fossil fuel hydrocarbon based energy sources. Businesses primarily focus on the return of investment of changes such as their source of energy, consumption patterns or how they transport or manufacture products. Governments confront these larger issues through regulation of natural resources, improved practices, providing subsidies and directly investing in new technologies and renewable energy sources.

