Models of Sustainability: Museums, Citizenship, and Common Wealth

The economic focus of our culture has bequeathed many benefits to many people, but it has left a wake of environmental destruction and great gulfs between the rich and the poor within our country and between nations. Emerging from the global grassroots is an approach that moves away from domination to cooperation. Sustainability, or sustainable development, offers a new approach that links local and global, social and environmental, and economic. The article explores various models of sustainability and museums' use of these models to engage their communities.