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| Sustainable development |
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Sustainable development (SD) is a pattern of economic growth in which resource use aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but also for generations to come (sometimes taught...
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| Sustainable management |
Sustainable management takes the concepts from sustainability and synthesizes them with the concepts of management. Sustainability has three branches: the environment, the needs of present and future generations, and the economy. Using these...
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| Sustainable design |
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Sustainable design (also called environmental design, environmentally sustainable design, environmentally conscious design, etc.) is the philosophy of designing physical objects, the built environment, and services to comply with the principles of...
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| Sustainable agriculture |
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Sustainable agriculture is the practice of farming using principles of ecology, the study of relationships between organisms and their environment. It has been defined as "an integrated system of plant and animal production practices having a site...
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| Sustainable living |
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Sustainable living is a lifestyle that attempts to reduce an individual's or society's use of the Earth's natural resources and his/her own resources. Practitioners of sustainable living often attempt to reduce their carbon footprint by altering...
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| Sustainable industries |
The earliest mention of the phrase sustainable industries appeared in 1990 in a story about a Japanese group reforesting a tropical forest to help create sustainable industries for the local populace. (Dietrich, Bill. "Our Troubled Earth – Japan."...
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| Sustainable forestry |
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Sustainable forestry is a forest management concept that differs from Sustainable forest management and Sustained Yield Forestry according to the sets of forest goods and services that we attempt to "sustain". The basic tenet of sustainable forestry...
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| Sustainable use |
Sustainable use is the use of resources at a rate which will meet the needs of the present without impairing the ability of future generations to meet their needs. The concept was notably put forth by the Brundtland Commission in 1987.
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| Sustainable transport |
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Sustainable transport (or green transport) refers to any means of transport with low impact on the environment, and includes non-motorised transport, i.e. walking and cycling, transit oriented development, green vehicles, CarSharing, and building or...
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| Sustainable energy |
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Sustainable energy is the sustainable provision of energy that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. Technologies that promote sustainable energy include renewable energy sources,...
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| Sustainable yield |
The sustainable yield of natural capital is the ecological yield that can be extracted without reducing the base of capital itself, i.e. the surplus required to maintain ecosystem services at the same or increasing level over time. This yield...
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| Sustainable urban infrastructure |
Sustainable urban infrastructure is a term used to describe infrastructure that facilitates a place or regions progress towards the goal of sustainable living. Attention is paid to technological and government policy which enables urban planning for...
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| Sustainable municipal infrastructure |
The term sustainable municipal infrastructure is used by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, Infrastructure Canada, National Research Council of Canada, and Canadian Public Works Association to describe the goal of their FCM InfraGuide...
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| Sustainable Communities Plan |
The Sustainable Communities Plan was launched in 2003 and is a key policy of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in guiding its regeneration and departmental objectives. It led to the a range of policies and plans which are in effect a spatial...
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| Sustainable business |
Sustainable business, or green business, is an enterprise that has no negative impact on the global or local environment, community, society, or economy—a business that strives to meet the triple bottom line. Often, sustainable businesses have...
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| Sustainable resource extraction |
Describing the use of materials available in nature in a way that does not affect its balance. Usually however, sustainability is based on some kind of cost-benefit analysis, where one has to accept some damage (or human caused unbalance) to the...
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Sustainable architecture is a general term that describes environmentally conscious design techniques in the field of architecture. Sustainable architecture is framed by the larger discussion of sustainability and the pressing economic and political...
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| Sustainable Population Australia |
Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) (formerly Australians for an Ecologically Sustainable Population) is an Australian special advocacy group, founded in Canberra in 1988, which seeks to establish an "ecologically sustainable" human population....
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| Sustainable community |
Sustainable communities are communities planned, built, or modified to promote sustainable living. This may include sustainability aspects relating to reproduction , water, transportation, energy, and waste and materials. They tend to focus on...
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| Sustainable transportation |
Also commonly referred to Sustainable Transport or Sustainable Mobility, there is no widely accepted definition of sustainable transportation by any of these names. Since it is a sector-specific sub-set to the post-1988 sustainable development...
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| Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education | Sustainable agriculture research and education |
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education or (SARE) is a part of the USDA's Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service. SARE is a granting organization that tries to promote environmentally friendly agriculture and help small...
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| Sustainable tourism |
Sustainable tourism is tourism attempting to make as low impact on the environment and local culture as possible, while helping to generate future employment for local people. The aim of sustainable tourism is to ensure that development brings a...
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| Sustainable habitat |
A sustainable habitat is an ecosystem that produces food and shelter for people and other organisms, without resource depletion and in such a way that no external waste is produced. Thus the habitat can continue into future time without external...
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| Sustainable national income | Sustainable National Income |
Sustainable national income, (SNI) is an indicator for environmental sustainability.
The national income of a country is an estimate of the yearly production of goods and services. The loss of possible uses of the non-human made physical...
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| Sustainable Development Commission |
The Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) was a non-departmental public body responsible for advising the UK Government, Scottish Government, Welsh Assembly Government, and Northern Ireland Executive on sustainable development.
It was set up by...
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| Sustainable forest management |
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Sustainable forest management (SFM) is the management of forests according to the principles of sustainable development. Sustainable forest management uses very broad social, economic and environmental goals. A range of forestry institutions now...
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| Sustainable Development Policy Institute |
The Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) provides the global sustainable development community with representation from Pakistan as well as South Asia as a whole. The Institute's mission is: "To catalyse the transition towards sustainable...
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| Sustainable city |
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A sustainable city, or eco-city is a city designed with consideration of environmental impact, inhabited by people dedicated to minimization of required inputs of energy, water and food, and waste output of heat, air pollution - CO2, methane, and...
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| Sustainable urban drainage systems |
Sustainable drainage systems (SuDS), sometimes known as sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS), are designed to reduce the potential impact of new and existing developments with respect to surface water drainage discharges.
The idea behind SUDS...
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| Sustainable landscape architecture |
Sustainable landscape architecture is a category of sustainable design concerned with the planning and design of outdoor space.
This can include ecological, social and economic aspects of sustainability. For example, the design of a sustainable...
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| Sustainable community energy system |
A sustainable community energy system is an integrated approach to supplying a local community with its energy requirements from renewable energy or high-efficiency co-generation energy sources. The approach can be seen as a development of the...
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| Sustainable Style Foundation |
The Sustainable Style Foundation (SSF) is a Seattle, Washington-based international nonprofit organization that promotes sustainable design and sustainable living.
Co-founded in 2003 by Sean Schmidt and Rebecca Luke, SSF also publishes a quarterly...
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| Sustainable Procurement |
Sustainable procurement (or Green procurement) is a spending and investment process typically associated with public policy, although it is equally applicable to the private sector. It is linked to the wider agenda of sustainable development....
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| Sustainable Advertising |
Sustainable advertising addresses the carbon footprint and other negative environmental and social impacts associated with the production and distribution of advertising materials. A growing number of companies are making a commitment to the...
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| Sustainable Communities Bill |
The Sustainable Communities Act 2007 (c 23) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Bill for this Act was a Private Member's Bill.
The Sustainable Communities Act represents the campaign success by Local Works, a UK coalition of over...
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| Sustainable Sciences Institute |
The Sustainable Sciences Institute is a San Francisco based international nonprofit organization that works to improve public health in developing countries by building local capacity for scientific research on infectious diseases.
The institute...
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| Sustainable South Bronx |
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Founded by environmental activist Majora Carter in 2001,Sustainable South Bronx (SSBx) is a non-profit environmental justice solutions organization in New York City's South Bronx neighborhood.
The organization spearheaded the creation of Hunts Point...
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| Sustainable Value |
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Sustainable value is a way of managing and measuring sustainability performance. The concept was developed by researchers who are working today for Euromed Management School (Marseille/France) and the IZT - Institute for Futures Studies and...
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| Sustainable regional development |
Sustainable regional development is the application of sustainable development at a regional, rather than local, national or global level. It differs to regional development per se, as the latter is a term used more generally to describe economic...
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| Sustainable Forestry Initiative |
The Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) is a 'forest certification standard' and program of SFI Inc., a non-profit organization. The Sustainable Forestry Initiative is the world’s largest single forest certification standard by area.
The SFI...
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| Sustainable innovation |
Sustainable innovation is defined as:
Sustainable innovation is a process where sustainability considerations (environmental, social and financial) are integrated into company systems from idea generation through to research and development (R&D;...
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| Sustainable product development and design |
Sustainable product development and design is concerned with balancing economic, environmental, and social aspects in the creation of products and services.
Sustainable product development and design looks to minimise adverse sustainability impacts...
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| Sustainable energy vehicle |
Sustainable Energy Vehicles (SEV) include hybrid electric vehicles and vehicles that run on sustainable gas products (e.g., biodiesel and bioethanol).
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| Sustainable planting |
Sustainable planting is an approach to planting design and landscaping-gardening which supports with the principles of sustainability.
This is can involve:
Dunnett, N., Kingsbury, N., Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls Timber Press (May 2004)
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| Sustainable graphic design |
Sustainable graphic design is the application of sustainability principles to graphic design. It considers the environmental impacts of graphic design products (such as packaging, printed materials, publications, etc.) throughout a life cycle that...
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| Sustainable automotive air conditioning | The Cool War |
Sustainable automotive air conditioning is the subject of a debate – nicknamed the Cool War – about the next-generation refrigerant in car air conditioning. The Alliance for CO2 Solutions supports the uptake of sustainable carbon dioxide (CO2) as a...
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| Sustainable Sanitation Alliance |
The Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) is a network formed by organisations active in the field of sustainable sanitation. Its formation in early 2007 was motivated by the UN's decision to declare 2008 as International Year of Sanitation (IYS)...
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| Sustainable sanitation |
The urgency for action in the sanitation sector is obvious, considering the 2.6 billion people world-wide who remain without access to any kind of improved sanitation, and the 2.2 million annual deaths (mostly children under the age of 5) caused...
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| Sustainable fashion |
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Sustainable fashion, also called eco fashion, is a part of the growing design philosophy and trend of sustainability, the goal of which is to create a system which can be supported indefinitely in terms of environmentalism and social responsibility....
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| Sustainable eating |
According to the American Dietetic Association, the food system is described as "the transformation of raw materials into foods and then nutrients into health outcomes, within biophysical and sociocultural contexts." and sustainability means ...
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| Sustainable MBA |
The traditional MBA degree (Masters in Business Administration) requires coursework and other study of business from a primarily financial standpoint, with some attention to management of people, to conventional economic theory, and to business...
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| Sustainable Conservation |
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Sustainable Conservation advances the
stewardship of natural resources using innovative, pragmatic strategies
that actively engage businesses and private landowners in conservation. Founded
in 1992, we partner with business, agriculture and...
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| Sustainable Cities Report |
On Monday 12 September 2005, the Australian House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Heritage tabled its report on the inquiry into Sustainable Cities. The tabling of the report concluded the committee's inquiry.
A key...
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| Sustainable Silicon Valley |
Sustainable Silicon Valley (SSV) is a collaboration of businesses, governments, and non-governmental organizations that are identifying and addressing environmental and resource pressures in Silicon Valley. As its first initiative, SSV engaged...
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| Sustainable seafood |
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Sustainable seafood is seafood from either fished or farmed sources that can maintain or increase production in the future without jeopardizing the ecosystems from which it was acquired. The sustainable seafood movement has gained momentum as more...
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| Sustainable Business Network |
The Sustainable Business Network is a not for profit organisation in New Zealand. Commonly known as the SBN, the network was created in October 2002 and is a forum for businesses who are interested in sustainable business practice and sustainable...
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| Sustainable product development |
Sustainable product development (SPD) is a method for product development that incorporates a Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development (FSSD), also known as The Natural Step (TNS) framework. As the demand for products continues to increase...
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| Sustainable design standards | Sustainable Design Standards |
Design standards, reference standards and performance standards are familiar throughout business and industry, virtually for anything that is definable. Sustainable design, taken as reducing our impact on the earth and making things better at the...
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| Sustainable Development Online |
Sustainable Development Online (SDO) is an international reference database and part of EnviroWindows, an environmental information website. According to the SDO website, its role is to "map the continually changing area of sustainable development,...
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