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Sustainability is a complicated word for a simple set of rules: "Leave the world better than you found it, take no more than you need, try not to harm the environment, make amends if you do."

Sustainability means working to make sure the demands we place on the environment can be met without affecting the environment's ability to provide for future generations. The philosophy of sustainability is being applied in many areas, including technology and science. Whether we like it or not, we all make an environmental "footprint," a natural legacy or record of how we utilize our natural resources, either sustaining and respecting our earth, or depleting and polluting it. We can choose to prevent chemical contamination or our natural resources, we can choose to judiciously use power and electricity, and we can choose to promote and support environmentally responsible farming practices that include field monitoring and selective pesticide use.

Sustainability is also about sustaining and respecting the nutritional needs of our bodies … seeking "whole" foods instead of processed foods and eliminating unhealthy elements like hydrogenated fats and high fructose corn syrup from our diets. Sustainability is important to AVI. Our menu creation takes local seasonal harvests into account. We serve locally grown and fresh produce and ingredients; not only is this beneficial in terms of freshness and benefits to the local economy, it also helps to save fuel and reduce air pollution incurred when produce is trucked from long distances and will reduce greenhouse gas production as well.

Please join us on our journey to a positive impact on our environment as we nourish and strengthen our bodies!

Read more about sustainability and AVI FOODSYSTEMS, Inc.®.