Business Beat

Sustainable Long Island is an organization with an eye-catching name. How exactly can you be against sustainability?

Well, the group's work isn't always successful. Its community-involving "visioning" projects around Long Island have not always gotten beyond the drafting tables.

But the idea of sustainability is worthy of consideration no matter what.

Here's a new story about the group's work by my colleague Rhoda Amon:

http://www.newsday.com:/business/ny-lfcov1028,0,2651033.story

Here's a further look at the theory of sustainability, and its application:

http://www.sustainablemeasures.com/

And here's a way to look at the organization itself:

http://www.sustainableli.org/

--Noel Rubinton