Sustainability: Huh?
Today’s cool topic of semi-obscurity: Sustainability. It’s like a catchy piece of jargon you hear your kids using, but you’re not really sure what it means. The sustainability movement is a reaction to the idea that many of our North American cultural and economic practices are geared to fail in a couple of generations, or even after a couple of decades. Non-sustainable practices are often billed as things like strip mining, Big Oil, deforestation, and urban sprawl. Oh, and let’s not forget the Exxon Valdez. Very non-sustainable for a lot of seagulls.
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