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Food and Society Workshop, Tahsha LePage, Phoebe Ward, Monica Saralampi, Martha Megarry, Maria Frank, Matt Gunther, Authors

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Sustainability

Recently, the term sustainable is often used to describe...
  • Practices that are perceived as positive or environmentally "responsible"

It may also mean, more generally...

  • Practices that do not lastingly or cumulatively deplete the resource base on which they depend
And in a business/financial sense, it can mean...
  • Economic management that will allow a business to continue operating as it currently does (see also the tag "economic feasibility")
Related terms: resilience, stewardship, sustainable agriculture


Within the tag family "Values, Justifications, & Motivations."
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