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growth and looks for alternative ways of growing. grandchildren to live comfortably in a friendly, clean, and healthy world. Sustainable Seattle Sustainability is a new way of thinking about an concern: ensuring that our children and grandchildren inherit a tomorrow that is at least as good as today, preferably better. We want to make sure that the way we live our lives is sustainable - that it can continue and keep improving for a long, long time. Sustainability is equity over time. As a value, it refers to giving equal weight in your decisions to the future as well as the present. You might think of it as extending the Golden Rule through time, so that you do unto future generations (as well as to your present fellow beings) as you would have them do unto you. James McNeil Growth based on forms and processes of development that do not undermine the integrity of the environment on which they depend. David Schaller Achieving the ecological balance which allows economic prosperity and social equity to be achieved across generations. Sustainability refers to the ability of a society, ecosystem, or any such ongoing system to continue functioning into the indefinite future without being forced into decline through exhaustion. . . of key resources. Sustainability is an economic state where the demands placed upon the environment by people and commerce can be met without reducing the capacity of the environment to provide for future generations. Caring for the Earth Development that provides real improvements in the quality of human life and at the same time conserves the vitality and diversity of the Earth. Donella Meadows A sustainable society is one that is far-seeing enough, flexible enough, and wise enough not to undermine either its physical or its social systems of support. Sustainable Sonoma County Sustainability secures people's quality of life within the means of nature in a way that is fair and equitable to all humanity, other species and to future generations. Sustainability recognizes the of the economy, society, and environment. It requires that we not Thomas Jefferson Then I say the Earth belongs to each...generation during its course, fully and in its own right. The second generation receives it clear of the debts and encumbrances, the third of the second, and so on. For if the first could charge it with a debt, then the earth would belong to the dead and not to the living generation. Then, no generation can
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