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Sustainability
"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Sustainability might well be the ultimate combination and culmination of all the concepts we're talking about on this site. It is the ability to provide for the needs of

the world's current population, without damaging the ability of future generations to provide for themselves. When something is sustainable, it can be carried out over and over without negative environmental effects or impossible costs (in money, labor or time) to anyone involved. A simple example: it isn't sustainable to sell products wrapped in plastic packaging that, although affordable and easy to use for the manufacturers, exacts a high toll on people and the environment. The earth's precious energy resources are used to create the plastic, and it can't biodegrade back into the resource stockpile. People used on the assembly lines are part of an ever-increasing poverty cycle, and subject to workplace hazards that impact Stark Contrast Tree

their quality and length of life. Ultimately, the future pays, because resources are being drained that cannot be replaced. The sustainability movement began with a small number of researchers, innovators and activists who consciously enacted whole-systems approaches to developing systems, technologies and lifestyles that can provide a high quality and environmentally benign way of life for all of us, now and generations into the future. Thankfully, they have inspired an ever-growing movement toward sustainability, and it offers some of the best reasons to hope for the future.

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Sustainability "The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Sustainability
"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Copyright 2007 Good Intentions. All rights reserved.
This site 100% powered by wind and solar energy.
www.livewithgoodintentions.com