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Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:06:48 -0400
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Subject: 3 Re: [DCHAS-L] sustainability definition

From: "Dr. Jay A. Young" <chemsafety**At_Symbol_Here**verizon.net>
Date: September 11, 2009 4:05:35 PM EDT
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] sustainability definition

>According to the EPA Sustainability Web site, sustainability means "meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."

Hey, that's a reasonable and useful definition.

 

Jay Young

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From: "Dr Henry" <henryb**At_Symbol_Here**itt.edu>
Date: September 11, 2009 1:43:05 PM EDT
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] sustainability definition

>According to the EPA Sustainability Web site, sustainability means "meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."

The problem is that that is a pie in the sky definition.  Whose crystal ball tells us "the ability of future generations".   And the only way to do this would be to immediately stop ALL consumption since we do not know the future.  Even Al Gore doesn't claim he knows the future?


Dr.Henry A. Boyter Jr.
Director of Research
Institute of Textile Technology
NC State University College of Textiles
Raleigh, NC

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From: "Slavin, Thomas J (Tom)" <Tom.Slavin**At_Symbol_Here**Navistar.com>
Date: September 11, 2009 1:58:13 PM EDT
Subject: RE: [DCHAS-L] sustainability definition


For the record, the idea of sustainability dates back more than 40 years (van der Linde and Danskin 1998 [1]), sustainability has recently been increasingly associated with the integration of economic, social, and environmental fields.  In 1989, the World Commission on Environment and Development (the Brundtland Commission) articulated what has now become a widely accepted definition of sustainability: "[to meet] the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs=94  (United Nations General Assembly, 1987)

 

1.      van der Linde, H.e. and M.H. Danskin, ed., Enhancing sustainability: resources for our future, in SUI Technical Series, S.U.I. International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Editor. 1998: Gland. p. 178.

 

 

Tom Slavin
ph. 312-836-3929  cell 630-881-6267
email: tom.slavin**At_Symbol_Here**navistar.com



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