As an advocate of responsibility, one may find themselves feeling an immense amount of joy from the smallest feats of sustainability success... whether it was bringing a compost program to your business to educating a family member on passive heating and cooling to reduce their energy consumption and bills. It's amazing to me to see the progression of sustainability from only a year ago. As much as I believe we have so much more to achieve, everyday I see little glimmers of the fabulous, blinging little jems of responsibility and thoughtfulness that was not present a year ago.

Because of this, today, I am going to start a weekly acknowledgment of the small jems we find in our everyday lives that make us sustainability Gurus push on.

Today's Sustainable Jem of the week....