Sustainability

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.

Links

Reference

• HTYP
• Wikipedia
• Conservapedia no article as of 2008-02-05, though some mention in environmentalist
• dKosopedia no article as of 2008-02-05
• SourceWatch no 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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• 2011-07-15T06:00:00 [L..T] A research revolution to save the planet If promises are kept, development finance is set to rise to $100bn. Shouldn't we be investing this money in developing clean technologies?

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• 2009-09-08 [Talk|Index] 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.”
• 2008-06-14 [Talk|Index] Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol § “Unbelievably, this is not science fiction. Mr Pal holds up a small beaker of bug excretion that could, theoretically, be poured into the tank of the giant Lexus SUV next to us. Not that Mr Pal is willing to risk it just yet. He gives it a month before the first vehicle is filled up on what he calls "renewable petroleum".”
• 2008-01-24 [Talk|Index] Startup Says It Can Make Ethanol for $1 a Gallon, and Without Corn § “A biofuel startup in Illinois can make ethanol from just about anything organic for less than $1 per gallon, and it wouldn't interfere with food supplies, company officials said.”
• 2007-11-28 [Talk|Index] Google Goal: Power Cheaper Than Coal § “Google Inc. said on Tuesday it plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to help drive down the cost of electricity made from renewable energy below the price of coal.”
• 2007-09-03 [Talk|Index] Blown Away § “[On {{date|2007-08-03|August 3
• 2007-08-03 [Talk|Index] Losing land to palm oil in Kalimantan § [2]this sort of thing may get spun as a problem caused by increasing demand for biofuels; the real problem is the same one the American Indians had when the Europeans arrived: different rules about how land is managed, and whoever has the guns wins the argument. Biofuels may cause land-allocation issues, but they can be resolved without exploiting anyone; if there isn't enough available land to support the growing demand, then the price should rise to the point where alternatives become preferable.
• 2007-03-28 [Talk|Index] 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.”

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