How We Define Sustainable Community Woodbine is a place where we
exchange ideas, debate concepts, and crystallize our vision and
practices of what it means to be a sustainable community.
Discussions of our values and goals inform our learning, our
work, and our play together. Likewise, our time together informs
our values and goals. As a basis for ongoing discussion, we
offer this working definition: “A sustainable community meets
its present social, cultural, economic, and ecological needs
while protecting and enhancing the ability of future generations
to define and meet their own needs.” A Good Definition Sparks
Questions Our definition of sustainable community does not gloss
over complexities and ambiguities but rather becomes the
foundation for questions and discussion—and we think that is a
good thing. Here are some of the questions the definition has
raised in our discussions: - “Why are we talking about
sustainable communities instead of just sustainability? Why
include social and cultural needs?” - “