Vision

Today’s society is driven by the need of resources and commodities more than ever. Everyday life is a race with progress, facilitated by knowledge and access to technology. Isolation and lack of proper infrastructure become dominant underprivileged factors, depriving the population of proper access to knowledge, technology and resources and leading to differences in the economic and social development of regions. In such underprivileged areas, populations depend directly on their natural environs, and tend to fill the economical gaps by over-exploiting the natural resources. This can lead to temporary economic benefits, but once the resources have finished, the social downfall is even greater than before. The ultimate result is poverty, migration and the obliteration of the connection between humans and their primordial home: nature.

Since the early dawn of mankind, nature has always provided food, shelter, tools, materials and energy, but in his growing need for resources, man has always tried to subdue and change nature according to his ever growing needs. However successful he might have been, nature’s grand and equally capricious phenomena have overwhelmed the imagination of men, inspiring a way of living governed by the outlines of a mystical world, but constrained by the realities of an objective natural environment. For millennia, this condition has shaped the human mind and our way of thinking. Nature’s diversity pushed the limits of the human imaginary, leading to differences in thinking, which would ultimately create cultures.

GeoSust is a project about rediscovering the sense of wonder that has nurtured man’s awe towards nature. It’s about how the intertwining of nature and culture can keep society aware of the environmental changes that are taking place around us, and about how society can take the upper hand and benefit from them. It shows how a better understanding of the natural and cultural environs can benefit our society, and how it can help us build a bridge between economic development and environmental protection.

GeoSust is a project about nature and people. It’s about how the link between local culture and Earth as a whole can be used to create sustainability and bring long-term economic benefits, under the auspice of geoconservation. It’s about changing the way we consider and use exhaustible goods, so that they are transformed in inexhaustible resources for our benefit as well as for nature’s.

Target: Buzău Land Intercommunity Development Association, as framework for the aspiring Buzău Land Geopark, Buzău County, Romania.