Category:Sustainability
Sustainability, in a broad sense, is the capacity to endure. It can be defined as the ability of an ecosystem to maintain ecological processes, functions, biodiversity and productivity into the future. 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.
The word 'sustainability' has become a wide-ranging term that can be applied to almost every facet of life on Earth, from a local to a global scale and over various time periods. Long-lived and healthy wetlands and forests are examples of sustainable biological systems. Invisible chemical cycles redistribute water, oxygen, nitrogen and carbon through the world's living and non-living systems, and have sustained life for millions of years. As the earth’s human population has increased, natural ecosystems have declined and changes in the balance of natural cycles has had a negative impact on both humans and other living systems.
There is now abundant scientific evidence that humanity is living unsustainably. Returning human use of natural resources to within sustainable limits will require a major collective effort. Since the 1980s, human sustainability has implied the integration of economic, social and environmental spheres to: “meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”[1] Efforts to live more sustainably can take many forms from reorganising living conditions (e.g., ecovillages, eco-municipalities and sustainable cities), reappraising economic sectors (green building, sustainable agriculture), or work practices (sustainable architecture), using science to develop new technologies (green technologies, renewable energy), to adjustments in individual lifestyles.[1]
Pages in category "Sustainability"
The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total.
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- 2002-01-19-Dreams of Tomorrow-Live Today
- 2006-11-05-Sustainability Of The Individual
- 2006-11-19-Sustaining Government & Corporations
- 2007-07-15-Import of Oneness
- 2008-01-28-Co-Creative Design Team
- 2008-11-11-Sustainable Businesses
- 2010-01-02-Celestial Resources
- 2010-01-27-Global Perpsectives
- 2010-04-13-Death and the Elderly
- 2010-04-21-Build Infrastructure
- 2010-06-25-Verge of Going Global
- 2010-08-27-Spiritual Pragmatism
- 2010-12-03-Special Session 25
- 2011-03-23-Moralite
- 2011-05-21-Melchizedek School
- 2011-07-24-Sustainable Legacy
- 2011-10-31-Conversations with Monjoronson 31
- 2011-11-18-Coversations with Monjoronson-Healthcare
- 2011-11-25-Conversations with Monjoronson 34
- 2011-12-02-Conversations with Monjoronson 35
- 2012-01-27-Conversations with Monjoronson 40
- 2012-02-10-Conversations with Monjoronson 42
- 2012-02-24-Conversations with Monjoronson 43
- 2012-03-09-Conversations with Monjoronson 44
- 2012-03-23-Conversations with Monjoronson 45
- 2012-03-29-Conversations with Monjoronson 46
- 2012-04-11-Conversations with Monjoronson 47
- 2012-04-13-Spiritual Wings II Workshop
- 2012-04-22-N. Idaho TeaM
- 2012-05-11-Conversations with Monjoronson 49
- 2012-06-07-Value of Teamwork
- 2012-06-15-Conversations with Monjoronson 52
- 2012-06-29-Conversations with Monjoronson 53
- 2012-08-17-Conversaciones con Monjoronson 57
- 2012-08-17-Conversations with Monjoronson 57
- 2012-08-24-Conversations with Monjoronson 58
- 2012-11-02-Conversations with Monjoronson 63
- 2012-11-16-Conversations with Monjoronson 64
- 2013-01-11-Conversaciones con Monjoronson 67
- 2013-01-11-Conversations with Monjoronson 67
- 2013-03-22-Conversaciones con Monjoronson 72
- 2013-03-22-Conversations with Monjoronson 72