Sustainability

About

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.
• There is a popular myth that there are no sustainable energy sources.
• sustainable energy: there should be a page for this, and much of this page's content should go there. Sustainability is also about farming practices and other things not directly related to energy.

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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

Related

• 2011/07/15 [L..T] headline::A research revolution to save the planet