consume resources faster contract debts greater than than they can be renewed may be paid during the course nor produce wastes faster of its own existence. than they can be absorbed. Mike Nickerson Theodore Roosevelt Activities are sustainable The "greatest good for the when they: greatest number" applies to 1. use materials in the [number of] people continuing cycles; within the womb of time, 2. use continuously reliable compared to which those sources of energy; and now alive form but an 3. come mainly from the insignificant fraction. Our potentials of being duty to the whole, including human, i.e., the unborn generations, bids communication, us to restrain an creativity, coordination, unprincipled present-day appreciation, and spiritual minority from wasting the and intellectual heritage of these unborn development. generations." Jamie Cloud David Orr Sustainability is a dynamic The overall challenge of condition which requires a sustainability is to avoid basic understanding of the crossing irreversible interconnections and thresholds that damage the interdependency among life systems of Earth while ecological, economic and creating long-term economic, social systems. political, and moral Sustainability means arrangements that secure the providing a rich quality of wellbeing of present and life for all and future generations. accomplishing this within the means of nature. Juan Carlos Elliot Rosenberg Wandemberg Sustainable development Sustainable development is refers to a positive rate of a socio-ecological process change in the quality of life characterized by the (i.e. well being) of people fulfillment of human needs based on a system which while maintaining the permits this positive rate of quality of the natural change to be maintained for environment indefinitely. an indefinite period of time. President's Council on Debra Dadd-Redalia Sustainable Sustainable means being able Development to keep going or able to Sustainable development is endure; sustainability, then, is economic growth that will acting in such a way that life benefit present and future on Earth endures on into the generations without future, providing for the detrimentally affecting the needs of all citizens and resources or biological creatures while maintaining systems of the planet. the natural functions,
consume resources faster than they can be renewed nor produce wastes faster than they can be absorbed. contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence. Mike Nickerson Activities are sustainable when they: 1. use materials in continuing cycles; 2. use continuously reliable sources of energy; and 3. come mainly from the potentials of being human, i.e., communication, creativity, coordination, appreciation, and spiritual and intellectual development. Theodore Roosevelt The "greatest good for the greatest number" applies to the [number of] people within the womb of time, compared to which those now alive form but an insignificant fraction. Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations." Jamie Cloud Sustainability is a dynamic condition which requires a basic understanding of the interconnections and interdependency among ecological, economic and social systems. Sustainability means providing a rich quality of life for all and accomplishing this within the means of nature. David Orr The overall challenge of sustainability is to avoid crossing irreversible thresholds that damage the life systems of Earth while creating long-term economic, political, and moral arrangements that secure the wellbeing of present and future generations. Juan Carlos Wandemberg Sustainable development is a socio-ecological process characterized by the fulfillment of human needs while maintaining the quality of the natural environment indefinitely. Elliot Rosenberg Sustainable development refers to a positive rate of change in the quality of life (i.e. well being) of people based on a system which permits this positive rate of change to be maintained for an indefinite period of time. President's Council on Sustainable Development Sustainable development is economic growth that will benefit present and future generations without detrimentally affecting the resources or biological systems of the planet. Debra Dadd-Redalia Sustainable means being able to keep going or able to endure; sustainability, then, is acting in such a way that life on Earth endures on into the future, providing for the needs of all citizens and creatures while maintaining the natural functions,
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