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What is Sustainability?
 Sustainability is a process.
"A dynamic process which enables all people to realize their potential and to improve their quality of life in ways that simultaneously protect and enhance the Earth's life support systems."
- Forum for the Future
"Humanity has the ability to make development sustainable--to ensure that it meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."
World Commission on Environment and Development,
Brundtland Commission, "Our Common Future"
"Sustainability: A state of dynamic equilibrium achieved by taking responsibility for balancing long term economic, environmental and social health --for ourselves, our communities, and our world.
Sustainability brings to light the connections between natural and human communities. It implies evolving our local and global civilization in a manner that makes sense socially, ecologically and economically, and treating our world as if we intend to stay."
- Pop Sustainability
Sustainability is related to the quality of life in a community -- whether the economic, social and environmental systems that make up the community, business, or household are providing a healthy, productive, meaningful life for all, both present and future.
These sites offer a more in depth discussion of what sustainability is:
The Natural Step (TNS)
The Natural Step is a non-profit advisory and think tank organization that helps businesses and governments integrate sustainability into core strategy and operations.
Interface Sustainability
Interface, Inc. was among the first major corporations in the United States to embrace the concept of sustainability and has made enormous strides in integrating it into their business model.
Pop Sustainability
Pop Sustainability is building a critical mass of commitment to sustainability among young people, thereby causing measurable progress in social, environmental and economic conditions-changing minds will change the planet.
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