Sustainability
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Overview
Sustainability refers to the idea of (human) business and personal/cultural practices which can be continued (sustained) indefinitely without causing irreversible damage to the environment and without using up resources which cannot be replaced in the forseeable future.Related Articles
- If humans are at all responsible for global warming (a point currently under debate), then by definition global warming is a sustainability issue.
- Oil dependence is a sustainability issue due to human inability to synthesize oil products (mainly fuels) at a sufficient rate to sustain current usage.
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Reference
- HTYP
- Wikipedia
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Conservapediano article as of 2008-02-05, though some mention in environmentalist -
dKosopediano article as of 2008-02-05 -
SourceWatchno article as of 2008-02-05
Projects
- Appropedia: sustainability wiki
- Repower America: political movement to achieve "100% clean energy within 10 years"; Al Gore seems to be involved
- Sustainable Community Action wiki
News
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- 2009-09-08 :more:talk: Michelle Obama Applies for Farmers Market Permit § “The Obamas have been talking about starting up a White House farmers market for a little while now, and today comes word from WTOP that First Lady Michelle Obama has actually put in an application with DDOT for the relevant street closure.” more...
- 2008-01-24_Startup_Says_It_Can_Make_Ethanol_for_$1_a_Gallon,_and_Without_Corn
- 2007-11-28_Google_Goal:_Power_Cheaper_Than_Coal
- 2007-09-03_Blown_Away
- 2007-08-03_Losing_land_to_palm_oil_in_Kalimantan
- 2007-03-28 :more:talk: George W. Bush's eco-friendly ranch compared to Al Gore's energy-expending mansion § “...there's a fair bit of truth to the e-mail: Al Gore's Nashville mansion is something of the energy-gobbler the e-mail depicts, while President Bush's Crawford ranch is more the model of responsible resource use the juxtaposition portrays it to be.” more...
