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.

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

Links

• Repower America: political movement to achieve "100% clean energy within 10 years"; Al Gore seems to be involved
• Sustainable Community Action wiki