Sustainability, in a broad sense, is the capacity to endure. In ecology, the word describes how biological systems remain diverse and productive over time. For humans it is the potential for long-term maintenance of wellbeing, which in turn depends on the wellbeing of the natural world and the responsible use of natural resources.
Sustainability has become a wide-ranging term that can be applied to almost every facet of life on Earth, from a loca...
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- Robert Ayres
- Earl Bakken
- Albert Bartlett
- Frank Barnaby
- Roy Beck
- Tom Bender
- Janine Benyus
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