SUSTAINABILITY
Definition
The actual practice and meaning of sustainability represents expanded awareness and responsibility. Sustainability is at the heart of PermaCulture. It offers potent contributions for a healthy future, personally and globally.
1. Sustainability of economic development, energy sources, etc. means capable of being maintained at a steady level without exhausting natural resources or causing severe ecological damage: “sustainable development.”
2. Sustainability is a system that maintains its own viability by using techniques that allow for continual reuse. Permaculture practices such as sustainable agriculture, aquaculture/aquaponics and water harvesting are key examples.
3. One is thought to be living a sustainable life if supported with at least basic necessities and/or sufficient funds. (It may be noted that learning survival skills to include food producing gardening and cooperative community building may be of growing importance to the definition of sustainable living.)
SUSTAINABILITY - further definitions:
4. Economic growth is sustainable if it is non-inflationary (and not degrading to the environment, to others, or to future generations.)
5. Capable of being supported or upheld, as by having its weight borne from below
6. Able to be maintained or kept going, as an action or process: a sustainable negotiation between two individuals
7. Able to be maintained at a certain rate or level
8. Able to be defended. "sustainable definitions of good educational practice"
9. Able to be confirmed and/or upheld: a sustainable decision
Definition
The actual practice and meaning of sustainability represents expanded awareness and responsibility. Sustainability is at the heart of PermaCulture. It offers potent contributions for a healthy future, personally and globally.
1. Sustainability of economic development, energy sources, etc. means capable of being maintained at a steady level without exhausting natural resources or causing severe ecological damage: “sustainable development.”
2. Sustainability is a system that maintains its own viability by using techniques that allow for continual reuse. Permaculture practices such as sustainable agriculture, aquaculture/aquaponics and water harvesting are key examples.
3. One is thought to be living a sustainable life if supported with at least basic necessities and/or sufficient funds. (It may be noted that learning survival skills to include food producing gardening and cooperative community building may be of growing importance to the definition of sustainable living.)
SUSTAINABILITY - further definitions:
4. Economic growth is sustainable if it is non-inflationary (and not degrading to the environment, to others, or to future generations.)
5. Capable of being supported or upheld, as by having its weight borne from below
6. Able to be maintained or kept going, as an action or process: a sustainable negotiation between two individuals
7. Able to be maintained at a certain rate or level
8. Able to be defended. "sustainable definitions of good educational practice"
9. Able to be confirmed and/or upheld: a sustainable decision