What is Sustainability?

2. What is Sustainability?

17. What is Sustainability?

18. Sustainability is… Meeting the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. – Our Common Future

19. Meeting the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. – Our Common Future .

20. Equity extended into the future -Herman Daly

21. Moving from linear to cyclical processes and technologies -Karl Henrick-Robert

22. A local, informed, participatory, balance-seeking process, operating within its Sustainable Area Budget, exporting no harmful imbalances beyond its territory or into the future, and thus opening the spaces of future opportunity and possibility. -UK Center for Sustainable Cities

23. THE TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE

25. 2010 Campus Sustainability Staffing Survey Popular

27. The problem of sustainability is simple enough to state. It requires that the fertility cycle of birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay—what Albert Howard called “the Wheel of Life”—should turn continuously in place, so that the law of return is kept and nothing is wasted. For this to happen in the stewardship of humans, there must be a cultural cycle, in harmony with the fertility cycle, also continuously turning in place. The cultural cycle is an unending conversation between old people and young people, assuring the survival of local memory, which has, as long as it remains local, the greatest practical urgency and value. This is what is meant, and is all that is meant, by “sustainability.” The fertility cycle turns by the law of nature. The cultural cycle turns on affection. Wendell E. Berry – “It All Turns on Affection”