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What is sustainability?

Sustainability Sharlene Haycock
What does the word sustainability make you think of? Take a few moments and quickly write down some of your ideas.

This is a definition that is widely used. ‘Sustainability meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’

The definition was taken from the 1987 United Nations report, developed by the Bruntland Commission.

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