2010-12-30

what do we mean by 'sustainability'?

i have finished the book, life, money and illusion [lmai], by mike nickerson [mn], so you'll be reading a lot about sustainability in the days, weeks, and years to come. but first what do we mean by 'sustainability'?


'Well-being can be sustained when activities:
1 - use materials in continuous cycles.
2 - use continuously reliable sources of energy.
3 - come mainly from the qualities of being human
(i.e. creativity, communication, movement, appreciation,
and spiritual and intellectual development).

Long-term well-being is diminished when activities:
4 - require continual inputs of non-renewable resources.
5 - use renewable resources faster than their rate of renewal.
6 - cause cumulative degradation of the environment.
7 - require resources in quantities that undermine other people's well-being.
8 - lead to the extinction of other life forms.'

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