Welcome to Revamping Aviation

This blog looks critically at the aviation industry in its necessary transition to sustainability, not only ecological sustainability, but also social and economic sustainability. This integrated sustainability view is based upon the integrated social and ecological values, vision and ethics of the Earth Charter which has the same significance for the 21st century as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights had for the 20th century. See http://www.earthcharter.org/ This value system is translated into the contextual sustainability framework, information of which can be found on http://www.fcvnyc.blogspot.com/ and on my contextual sustainability article as chapter 2 in the Wenden anthology which is at www.globalepe.org/documents/contsuschp22fp_000.doc .This blog is part of http://www.susaviation.com/. It is at that website that readers are invited to sign the ISATEA petition, so that grassroots engagement and pressure can lead to a first class US transportation system. This website is an outcome from about 15 years of voluntary engagement with the issue of sustainable aviation, particularly in the metro NY area. http://www.metronyaviation.org/ gives a record of that activity. Since a couple of years that voluntary service has also extended to the national organization http://www.us-caw.org/ My engagement with sustainable aviation also led to the teaching of a course on sustainable aviation at the former College of Aeronautics near LaGuardia airport and now http://www.vaughn.edu/.One of my satisfying experiences in sustainable aviation was my invitation in November 07 by the publisher of the Seattle Port Observer. It was a great pleasure adding to the North West thinking and practice in sustainability by giving my presentation. Part of the satisfaction was also its excellent coverage in http://www.washblog.com/story/2007/11/4/171922/833.

Happy journey into sustainable aviation!Yours for sustaining futures and a sustainable, equitable and accountable aviation industry,
Frans C. Verhagen, M.Div., M.I.A., Ph.D., sustainability sociologist,
Adjunct Associate Professor of Sustainable Aviation at the Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology (formerly the College of Aeronautics at La Guardia Airport), http://www.aero.edu/
President, Citizens Aviation Watch USA, Inc, http://www.us-caw.org/; President, SAFE, Inc., http://www.metronyaviation.org/
Principal, SAVIA Associates International. http://www.susaviation.com/
Sustainability Fellow at the Green Institute, Washington, D.C., http://www.greeninstitute.net/Director, Sustainability Research and Education, Earth and Peace Education Associates International (EPE)97-37 63rd Road, #15E, Rego Park, NY 11374, USAvoice: 1+(718)275-3932; cell: 917-617-6217; fax 1+(718)275-3932http://www.globalepe.org/, gaia1@rcn.com, http://fcvnyc.blogspot.com/ /

“…..the verb sustaining holds open the actively normative questions that the idea of sustainability raises. We are required to probe: What truly sustains us? Why? And how do we know? Conversely, we must ask: What are we to sustain above all else? Why? And how may we do so?" Aidan Davison, Technology and the Contested Meanings of Sustainability, 2001: p.64Posted by Frans Verhagen, M.Div., M.I.A., PhD.