More definitions on Sustainability ...
| Brundtland
Report (World Commission on Environment &
Development) Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. |
Robert Gilman Sustainability is equity over time ... think of it as extending the Golden rule through time .. Do unto future generations as you would have them do unto you. |
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Paul Hawken Leave the world better than you found it, take no more than you need, try not to harm life or the environment, make amends if you do. |
James
Coomer A sustainable society is one that lives within the self-perpetuating limits of its environment. That society is not a "no growth" society - it is, rather a society that recognizes the limits of growth and looks for alternative ways of growing. |
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| David Orr Sustainable design is the careful nesting of human purposes with the larger patterns and flows of the natural world... |
Sustainable
Seattle Sustainability is a new way of thinking about an age-old concern: ensuring that our children and grandchildren inherit a tomorrow that is at least as good as today, preferably better. We want to make sure that the way we live our lives is sustainable - that it can continue and keep improving for a long, long time. |
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| Barbara
Lither If you get right down to it, sustainability is really the study of the interconnectedness of all things.
James
McNeil |
Thomas
Jefferson Then I say the earth belongs to each...generation during its course, fully and in its own right. The second generation receives it clear of the debts and encumbrances, the third of the second, and so on. For if the first could charge it with a debt, then the earth would belong to the dead and not to the living generation. Then, no generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of it's own existence. Sept. 6, 1789 |
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| 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." 1916 |
David
Schaller Achieving the ecological balance which allows economic prosperity and social equity to be achieved across generations. |
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| 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. A sustainable United States will have a growing economy that provides equitable opportunities for satisfying livelihoods and a safe, healthy, high quality of life for current and future generations. Our nation will protect its environment, its natural resource base, and the functions and viability of natural systems on which all life depends. |
Caring
for the Earth Development that provides real improvements in the quality of human life and at the same time conserves the vitality and diversity of the Earth.
Elliot
Rosenberg |