Remember that time you volunteered to do something and then upon onset of the activity, you realized you’ve been completely punked? Like that friend who lives in a one-bedroom on the first floor and asks for your help moving because you have a truck. Once you’ve filled your truck with only half of their shoe collection, you discover it requires about 50 loads, they’re moving to the 83rd floor (no elevator) and they own a washer, dryer, refrigerator and waterbed, as well as an entire collection of granite sculptures.   This is how I’m feeling about the very column you’re reading. I volunteered to write a weekly column about sustainability focused on student awareness of personal choices and habits. Faith and religion, which are certainly not my area of expertise, prompt my second column. I am a scientist and believe faith serves a very important role in a society of purpose, community, justice and individual responsibility. I hold no faith above another and pursue righteousness and enlightenment as worthy life goals.   Sustainability is a broad term used interchangeably between many practices, and its connotation evolves with each. Scholars and officials’ most popular definition comes from the Brundtland Commission: “Sustainable development…meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own