Published 08/22/2013 VCReporter I got aboard the Sustainability Train early, in the late 1970’s. I saw it as a dazzling breakthrough concept. I won an international Mitchell Prize for an essay I wrote, “New Metaphors, Myths, and Values for a Steady State Future,” where I proposed local councils to promote and measure the level of sustainability in communities (see essay in Professional Work). Then with a colleague at CSU Northridge, I wrote a grant to measure to level of sust