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Sustainability: What is Sustainability?

A guide filled with useful resources about different types of sustainability.

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This guide is designed to help you learn more about sustainability using resources from the Honolulu Community College Library. Use the top navigation Tabs to find books, articles, research reports, and more!

What is Sustainability?

Video courtesy of YouTube user RealEyesvideo.

Like the video says, Sustainability is the creation and maintenance of the conditions under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony to support present and future generations. This is important because many of the resources we use in our daily lives are non-renewable, being depleted or wreaking havoc on the environment in an irreversible way.

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Three Pillars of Sustainability: Social, Environment and Economic

Courtesy of this Sustainability Science article on the background of the three pillars of sustainability.

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