Date: September 11, 2009 4:05:35 PM
EDT
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L]
sustainability definition
>According to the EPA Sustainability Web
site, sustainability means "meeting the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own
needs."
Hey, that's a reasonable and useful
definition.
Jay Young
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Date: September 11, 2009 1:43:05 PM
EDT
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L]
sustainability definition
>According to the EPA Sustainability Web
site, sustainability means "meeting the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own
needs."
The problem is that that is a pie in the sky
definition. Whose crystal ball tells us "the ability of future
generations". And the only way to do this would be to
immediately stop ALL consumption since we do not know the future.
Even Al Gore doesn't claim he knows the future?
Dr.Henry A. Boyter Jr.
Director of Research
Institute of Textile Technology
NC State University College of
Textiles
Raleigh, NC
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Date: September 11, 2009
1:58:13 PM EDT
Subject: RE: [DCHAS-L]
sustainability definition
For the
record, the idea of sustainability dates back more than 40 years (van
der Linde and Danskin 1998 [1]), sustainability has recently been
increasingly associated with the integration of economic, social, and
environmental fields. In 1989, the World Commission on Environment
and Development (the Brundtland Commission) articulated what has now
become a widely accepted definition of sustainability: "[to meet] the
needs of the present without compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their own needs=94 (United Nations General
Assembly, 1987)
1. van der Linde, H.e. and M.H.
Danskin, ed., Enhancing sustainability: resources for our future, in SUI
Technical Series, S.U.I. International Union for Conservation of Nature
(IUCN), Editor. 1998: Gland. p. 178.
Tom Slavin
ph.
312-836-3929 cell 630-881-6267
