2006-06-21 07:22:14 · 4 answers · asked by bjm_116 2 in Environment
Basically sustainable means renewable. So a resource that is sustainable is one that lends itself to be recycled or reused. Things like gasoline and other resources that are diminishing are not sustainable.
It really isn't that hard to explain without Wikipedia.
2006-06-21 10:57:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
refers to a kind of HUMAN LIFESTYLE of CONSCIOUSNESS that promotes PLANETARY HEALTH-WELLNESS-HOMEOSTASIS whereby humans live with reverence for the earth's resources and life forms and thus do not increase the degradation of the planet and its resources and species at the present RAPID RATE of destruction! WE ARE NOT LIVING SUSTAINABLY as a species. A few people ware, but the rest aren't so we are only slowing down the rate of destruction some. Basically sustainablilty means that we replace what we took-used, clean up what we messed up, so that there is a flowing, healthy dynamic state of balance-equalibrium, NOT A DECLINE-DEGRADATION in biological phenomina. It has to happen at all the micro and macro levels listed below!
sub atomic levels-physics levels
chemistry-atomic levels
molecular level
organelle level
cell level
tissue level
organ level
system level
organism level
on ecological levels: population level
community level
ecosystem level
biosphere-planetary level
beyond earth levels:
solar system level
galaxy level
universe level
cosmos level.
In other words, we are able to "sustain-maintain" the homeostasis-balance-health-life of the earth, (and beyond) inc the resources (chemistry and physics) that make the earth and beyond it alive-healthy.
2006-06-21 13:49:27 · answer #2 · answered by gopigirl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sustainability is a systemic concept, relating to the continuity of economic, social, institutional and environmental aspects of human society. It is intended to be a means of configuring civilization and human activity so that society, its members and its economies are able to meet their needs and express their greatest potential in the present, while preserving biodiversity and natural ecosystems, and planning and acting for the ability to maintain these ideals in a very long term. Sustainability affects every level of organization, from the local neighbourhood to the entire planet.
2006-06-21 07:26:29 · answer #3 · answered by whoselineguy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainability
2006-06-21 07:26:37 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋