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| | Sustainability - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The need for sustainability analysis and particularly for indicators of sustainability is a key requirement to implement and monitor the development of national sustainable development plans, as required by Agenda 21 agreed at UNCED in June 1992. | | | The World Business Council for Sustainable Development, founded in 1995, has formulated the business case for sustainable development and argues that "sustainable development is good for business and business is good for sustainable development". | | | In some countries and sectors financial sustainability is difficult in the medium-term. |
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| | Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes |
| | The sustainability analysts come from a variety of backgrounds, although the pre-requisite for being an analyst is an in-depth knowledge of finance as well as sustainability. | | | Corporate sustainability is a business approach to create long-term shareholder value. | | | Sustainability indexes provide objective benchmarks for the financial products that are linked to economic, environmental and social criteria. |
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| | Online TDM Encyclopedia - Sustainable Transportation and TDM |
| | Sustainability requires a clearly defined, transparent planning process, adequate opportunities for stakeholder to become informed about issues and be involved in decision-making, and good communication between professionals and the general public. | | | Sustainability is a planning perspective that accounts for economic, social and environmental goals, including impacts that are indirect, difficult to measure, and distant in time and space. | | | Sustainability emphasizes the integrated nature of human activities and therefore the importance of comprehensive Planning that coordinates between sectors, jurisdictions and groups. |
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| | Monitoring for Sustainability |
| | The concepts of fairness and equity in the distribution of costs and benefits of sustainability, although often difficult to measure, are seminal contributions to the sustainability dialogue. | | | Sustainability is a human value, not a fixed, independent state of social, economic, and ecological affairs. | | | Strong sustainability emphasizes intergenerational needs and places value in the changes in certain critical stocks of natural capital based on the assumption that there are certain types and levels of irreplaceable capital. |
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| | The Water Page - Sustainability |
| | The key to sustainability in the Continuation phase is the support system which should be in existence through the institutional arrangement of local government, district councils, provincial government and the national government. | | | As these very difficult realities come to light it becomes increasingly clear that sustainability is an issue to be addressed at the very beginning of development programmes and that if sustainability is not assured there is little point in spending the money except for very short-term welfare purposes. | | | It is clear therefore that if "projects" are to survive and real services are to be delivered, equal if not more attention, investment and expertise needs to be targeted at ensuring that the institutional support systems are established and have the capacity to perform their functions. |
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http://www.thewaterpage.com/sustainability.htm
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| | Sustainability |
| | Formally, we define sustainability as: undertaking environmental, economic, and social activities in a manner that ensures local and global ecosystem structures and functions are able to maintain themselves in perpetuity. | | | To us, sustainability is all of these strands - sustainability of ecosystems, sustainability of economies, and social/community sustainability or equity - and the interconnections between them. | | | To an economist, sustainability is the ability of the market to optimally allocate scarce resources, to send proper price signals, to provide a mechanism for investment, and to maintain a healthy labour market. |
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http://www.cier.ca/sustainability_rts.html
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| | Sustainability? |
| | Sustainability was taken to be more than financial cost recovery. | | | The sustainable livelihoods framework (Ashley and Carney 1999) developed and used in slightly different forms by a number of agencies has as its focus four capital assets: financial, human. | | | In bringing together these definitions and approaches for looking at the sustainability of ICTs it is important, as with all approaches to sustainability, to clarify what is being sustained, for how long, for whose benefit and at whose cost, over what area, and measured by what criteria (Roling and Jiggins 1998). |
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| | :: Science :: Environment :: Sustainability |
| | Izaak Walton League Sustainability Education Project - The Sustainability Education Project was formed to help bring human population growth, economic development and natural resource consumption into balance with the limits of nature for the benefit of current and future generations. | | | Institute for Social, Economic and Ecological Sustainability - Center for interdisciplinary study of sustainability issues at the University of Minnesota, including: biosafety, organic aquaculture, population and risk assessment of transgenic organisms. | | | Best Practices in Sustainable Development - Searchable database cataloging over 650 good and best practices from more than 90 countries on how people, their communities, the public and private sectors have been able to tackle critical social, economic and environmental problems. |
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http://www.localadsearch.com/Science/Environment/Sustainability
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| | Technorati Tag: sustainability |
| | Sustainability Green Building Services is a nationally recognized consulting firm that helps its clients successfully adopt green building and facility management practices. | | | Sustainable Development Solution Web-based software for corporate mandates, progress tracking and reports. | | | Sustainable Business GreenBusiness.net - A discussion list for sustainable business. |
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http://www.technorati.com/tag/sustainability
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| | State Sustainability MA State Sustainability |
| | The State Sustainability Program and Council have completed a greenhouse gas inventory for Massachusetts state government operations using energy consumption data from state government activities from fiscal year 2002. | | | To help prepare sustainability plans, the Council and program staff have prepared a sustainability plan template, which can be down loaded here. | | | Please contact State Sustainability staff if you are interested in receiving the full inventory spreadsheets. |
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| | GLOBAL VISION : SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATIONAL MEDIA PACKAGE |
| | It also shows that the total annual financing needed to implement their solution in a decade is less than 1/3 of the global defence budget. | | | H.H. the Dalai Lama said "Sustainability: The Best Investment is a very important project!" We are looking for a socially responsible company, institution, government or other donor to fund this film now, so that we can release it on Earth Day 2007. | | | It makes the link between peace, sustainable development and socially-responsible investment, pointing out that global problems including climate change, overpopulation, overconsumption, deforestation, debt, ecological disruption, soil erosion, unsafe water, nuclear weapons, landmines, hunger, illiteracy, poverty, and lack of health care constitute a growing security threat and a hidden form of violence against future generations. |
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http://www.global-vision.org/sustainability
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| | Sustainability |
| | J. Working people, who own over $3 trillion in pension monies (deferred wages in effect), should have financial options for where their money is invested apart from the current near-monopoly exerted by a handful of managers, banks, insurance companies, and mutual funds. | | | Greens support a definition of sustainability where we openly examine the economy as a part of the ecosystem, not as an isolated subset in which nothing but “resources” come in and products and waste go out and never the economy and the real world shall meet. | | | FAMILY FARMS are the backbone of a sustainable rural economy. |
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| | PG.com - Sustainability |
| | Sustainability aligns very well with our Statement of Purpose, which describes the synergy among meeting the needs of our consumers, building our sales and profit, and contributing to the prosperity of our employees, shareholders, and communities. | | | P&G directly contributes to sustainable development by providing products and services that improve the lives of consumers, whether in terms of health, hygiene, or convenience. | | | Over the past several years, academics, governments, and nongovernmental organizations have been evolving their views of environmental quality to the broader, more holistic concept of sustainable development. |
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http://www.pg.com/company/our_commitment/sustainability.jhtml
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| | Sustainability Web Ring |
| | ISIN also seeks to increase the use of sustainability indicators as a means of promoting movement toward sustainability at all scales, from local neighborhoods to the global economy. | | | Its charter is to conduct innovative research and to develop curriculum materials relevant to business and public sector stewardship of the environment and social responsibility. | | | The Trust was set up to promote sustainable management of natural resources in the context of improved livelihoods for Caribbean communities. |
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http://n.webring.com/hub?ring=sustainability
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| | Sustainability - EPA/QPWS |
| | Sustainability programs are also performed by a range of other government departments. | | | The Queensland Government has included the notion of ESD in legislation, for example the Environmental Protection Act 1994, Nature Conservation Act 1992 and the Coastal Management Act 1995. | | | The Commonwealth Government and State Governments worked together to produce the Intergovernmental Agreement on the Environment to provide more detail on implementing ESD in Australia. |
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http://www.epa.qld.gov.au/environmental_management/sustainability
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| | Portland State University Sustainability Academic Programs Register for Implementing Sustainability |
| | Learn how economic sustainability is irrevocably linked to environmental and social sustainability, market and non-market values for environmental and social services, approaches to measure progress toward sustainable development, causes and potential solutions to environmental and social degradation, roles of the business and government sectors in fostering sustainability, and the emerging field of ecological economics. | | | Learn about the human aspect of sustainability, relationships with environmental and economic sustainability, healthy families, healthy communities, healthy democracies, equity and social justice-class, gender and race, measurement and best practices - locally, nationally & globally, and implementation by businesses, governments, unions & NGOs. | | | The students will use academic and, potentially, community-based cases to better understand sustainability concepts in a multi-disciplinary setting. |
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http://www.sustain.pdx.edu/ap_certificates.php
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| | sustainability |
| | Basiago (1995) reckons that sustainability can be "regarded as tantamount to a new philosophy, in which principles of futurity, equity, global environmentalism and biodiversity must guide decision making." It is a far reaching concept and has particular meanings in different disciplinary settings: | | | Development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. | | | It concerns itself with the need to save natural capital on behalf of future generations. |
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http://www.srds.ndirect.co.uk/sustaina.htm
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| | Sustainability - Kay's A2 Geography |
| | Sustainable development: 'meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs' (Bruntland 1987) | | | Click on environment for regeneration of settlements, sustainable development, biodiversity action plan, nature conservation and the local Agenda 21. | | | Worldwatch Institute Online Worldwatch is a nonprofit public policy research organization dedicated to informing policymakers and the public about emerging global problems and trends and the complex links between the world economy and its environmental support systems. |
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| | Environmental Technology |
| | The Canon Sustainability Report 2005 is published to ensure our accountability to Canon stakeholders by informing them of the ways in which our global business activities are helping to achieve a sustainable society. | | | The Sustainability Report also promotes constructive two-way communication with stakeholders, which directly leads to improvements in the various activities outlined within this report. | | | We endeavor to expand the contents of this report each year to reflect the needs of a broad range of stakeholders, and outline Canon's diverse activities in a systematic and clear manner. |
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| | Sustainability |
| | Sustainable principles and practices are part of agency operations, as well as what we offer our customers. | | | The site gives customers a quick link to the many products and services we offer that contribute to the long-term protection and enhancement of the state’s environment, economy and quality of life. | | | In addition to offering many environmentally preferred products, GA provides numerous services that can help agencies meet sustainability goals. |
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| | Sustainability - Royal Philips Electronics |
| | Sustainability offers a world of opportunities to improve quality of life and create value for individuals, communities and the company. | | | Company shows major achievements and creating value in sustainability, from its focus on key global environmental challenges and innovations for emerging markets. | | | We firmly believe that socially and environmentally sound behavior contributes to sustained profitable growth and value creation. |
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| | DEQ: Sustainability |
| | The concept of sustainability means using, developing and protecting resources at a rate and in a manner that enables people to meet their current needs and also provides that future generations can meet their own needs. | | | Sustainability requires simultaneously meeting environmental, economic and community needs. | | | Implementing sustainable practices means improving our quality of life without depleting the resources future generations. |
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http://www.deq.state.or.us/programs/sustainability.htm
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| | Florida Sustainable Communities Center Resources |
| | "Sustainability requires at least a constant stock of natural capital, construed as the set of all environmental assets." | | | The best definition of sustainability offered so far comes from the 1986 Conference on Conservation and Development held in Ottawa, Canada by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. | | | "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." |
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| | Baxter U.S. - Sustainability |
| | For Second Time, Baxter Recognized as Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World... |
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| | Research Institute for Managing Sustainability |
| | Here, the topic is addressed from a variety of angles including Corporate Sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Good Governance, innovation research, and sustainable consumption. | | | A total of ten institutes and departments of the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration deal with economic, environmental and social aspects of sustainable development. | | | Sustainable development is an important challenge for our time - one which we at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration wish to thoroughly analyse. |
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| | Reflection on Sustainability - Albert A. Bartlett |
| | sustainability) and thus increasing the state's contribution to global | | | "sustainable" for their own personal advantage in promotion of enterprises | | | firm and unambiguous definition to the concept of sustainability and to |
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| | UPS Sustainability |
| | Annual summary updates will be provided until 2007, when we will issue a centennial sustainability report. | | | UPS has completed an update of the status of our key performance indicators (KPIs) as of year end 2004. | | | In October 2003, we issued our first Corporate Sustainability Report, Operating in Unison. |
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| | Sustainability of Human Progress |
| | No company or government is economically motivated to develop processes for using ordinary rock, because the supplies of better ores will last at least many hundreds of years and probably thousands. | | | How could we be more sure that progress is sustainable? | | | The richer countries should continue their progress, both for the sake of their own citizens and because the richer the country is, the more it is likely to do to help others. |
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| | Sustainability at Bristol-Myers Squibb |
| | Tools for use by our customers, health care professionals, and others in managing EHS issues. | | | We do this by focusing on the economic, social, and environmental impacts of our businesses and operations. | | | Sustainability at Bristol-Myers Squibb means delivering on our mission to extend and enhance human life in a way that supports the capacity of future generations to meet their needs. |
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| | EPA - Agriculture Topics: Sustainability |
| | A federal-wide program that encourages and assists Executive agencies in the purchasing of environmentally preferable products and services. | | | Have the economic, social, and environmental impacts been incorporated into the decision? | | | Sustainable development is less of a program and more of a new multifaceted approach to managing our environmental, economic, and social resources for the long term. |
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| | EcoIQ Sustainability Home Page |
| | Images are delivered immediately upon purchase via an online link, and are available individually from EcoPhotos.com and in small collections from EcoIQ Online Images. | | | Individuals and organizations may submit home page links, directory resources, online articles, and calendar events. | | | on the efforts around the nation and around the world to create a sustainable future. |
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| | Sustainable Measures - What is sustainability, anyway? |
| | Actions to improve conditions in a sustainable community take these connections into account. | | | Sustainability is related to the quality of life in a community -- whether the economic, social and environmental systems that make up the community are providing a healthy, productive, meaningful life for all community residents, present and future. | | | The very questions asked about issues in a 'sustainable' community include references to these links. |
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| | Sustainability Now |
| | If sustainability principles will guide us to a secure future, then nowhere do these principles need more urgent application than within the fields of science and technology. | | | What knowledge, skills, and actions are required to shift sustainability theory to practical application? | | | Tony Blair is admitting that the risks of climate change may be more serious than previously thought. |
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http://www.sustainability.ca
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| | Sustainability |
| | Towards Transparency: progress on global sustainability reporting 2004 | | | This report investigates the status of sustainability reporting around the world. | | | It has identified a number of trends and challenges, calling for improvements in coverage, standards and credibility. |
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| | Sustainability |
| | Unity’s Sustainability Committee was formed in 2001 to oversee and coordinate the College’s various efforts at improving sustainability, to identify areas where improvement is needed, and to make recommendations. | | | The committee is a group of students, faculty, and staff who meet throughout each semester and work with various members of the Unity community to improve the physical sustainability of the campus | | | Students will gain a firm foundation in the theoretical concepts of sustainable agriculture, but the emphasis of the course will be on the practical tools, techniques, and knowledge necessary to operate a successful small-scale, sustainable farm. |
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http://www.unity.edu/sustainability/ag.htm
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| | Redefining Progress: Programs: Sustainability Indicators |
| | The Sustainability Indicators Program uses the GPI and the Ecological Footprint to help businesses and communities and governments analyze their progress toward sustainability. | | | The project was completed in October 2003, and we anticipate a public release by the county government in the coming months. | | | Redefining Progress' primary measures of sustainability are the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) and the Ecological Footprint. |
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http://redefiningprogress.org/programs/sustainabilityindicators
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| | EPA Sustainability |
| | Forum on Sustainability, Well-Being, and Environmental Protection: What’s an Agency to Do? | | | Achieving sustainable solutions calls for stewardship, with everyone taking responsibility for solving the problems of today and tomorrow-individuals, communities, businesses and governments are all stewards of the environment. | | | Seeking to leverage the power of business as a force for good, Business Roundtable on Sept. 21, 2005 launched S.E.E. Change, a sustainable growth initiative encouraging leading U.S. companies to embrace business strategies and projects that measurably improve Society, the Environment and the Economy. |
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http://www.epa.gov/sustainability
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| | Sustainability |
| | We believe mining in a sustainable manner— meeting the economic, social and environmental needs of our stakeholders—creates the foundation for increased shareholder value. | | | Our objective is that economic and social benefits delivered during the life of the mine translate to long-term benefits for our host communities and countries. | | | At Placer Dome we define sustainability as the exploration, design, construction, operation and closure of mines in a manner that respects and responds to the social, environmental and economic needs of present generations and anticipates those of future generations in the communities and countries where we work. |
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| | Provide innovative and environmentally responsible solutions and services with efficiency, economy and integrity to help our customers succeed. | | | DGS is a member of the State of California Sustainable Building Task Force, which is comprised of over 40 state agencies. | | | Become the leader for sustainable philosophy, policy and practices in government. |
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| | EcoEarth.Info - The Environmental Sustainability Portal |
| | The best links the web has to offer regarding Environmental Sustainability - the Earth's largest and most frequently updated | | | - environmental advocacy discussion community and learning network dedicated to Global Ecological Sustainability | | | - brief commentary, links and analysis of environmental sustainability issues |
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http://www.ecoearth.info
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| | Stora Enso - Sustainability |
| | To succeed in this, we need to ensure that we build accountability into the way we actually work, thus creating long-term value on an economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable basis. | | | We will do this by being transparent, and open to dialogue with our stakeholders. | | | Sustainability has been identified as one of the key success factors in the Group's business strategy: Stora Enso aims at superior performance and image in the area of sustainability. |
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http://www.storaenso.com/CDAvgn/main/0,,1_-2089-5617-,00.html
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| | The Alliance for Sustainability |
| | As a non-profit with a small staff and budget, we rely on volunteers and interns to help carry out our work. | | | The Alliance has numerous publications and a comprehensive Sustainability Resource Center that is open to the public. | | | The Alliance accomplishes its work by bringing together diverse businesses, government agencies, academic institutions, religious organizations, nonprofits, community groups and individuals in support of sustainability. |
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| | SustainableOregon, State of Oregon's Sustainability Initiative |
| | SustainableOregon.net communicates developments in Oregon state government and connects you with local agencies, organizations and businesses taking leadership roles in sustainable development. | | | ORPIN features online bidding, searches for supplier, posting solicitation notices, browsing by award date or supplier name and a number of other helpful tools. | | | Governor Kulongoski shortens his renewable energy timetable by 15 years, announcing to Oregon Sustainability Board that all electricity used by state agencies is to come from brand-new renewable sources by 2010. |
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| | portland imc - sustainability |
| | Ethanol from Cellulose Biomass Not Sustainable nor Environmentally Benign | | | To address these, the Humboldt Neighborhood Association is forming a Sustainability Committee. | | | Living sustainably and becoming politically strong in our individual neighborhoods is how we stop the governmental and corporate abuse that is ravaging this planet and generating so much war and human misery. |
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| | SustainAbility |
| | SustainAbility's response to the decision to abolish the OFR | | | SustainAbility's new report puts Tax in the spotlight | | | Skoll Foundation & SustainAbility announce $1M partnership to advance social enterprise |
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| | Toward a Sustainable Washington - WA Dept. of Ecology |
| | The application period for the 2006 Governor’s Award for Pollution Prevention and Sustainable Practices opens April 3 and ends June 3. | | | The purpose of this web site is to provide you with inspiration and information about sustainability, and to highlight some of the steps that we here at Ecology are taking to foster sustainable communities and natural resources within our state. | | | Take a look at these sustainability related publications created by Ecology staff |
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| | The Green Lobo - Sustainable Development at UNM-Taos |
| | As one of the newest colleges in the United States, we are making use of the rare opportunity to build a campus with extensive sustainable features, serving as a living/learning laboratory for professionals, students and children in New Mexico and beyond. | | | The following are some of the current sustainable features and initiatives at UNM-Taos. | | | A certificate in Sustainable Building will be available to students starting Fall 2006 - contact faculty member is Scott Evans |
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| | Novo Nordisk A/S - Sustainability |
| | Sustainability in short Positions Partnerships Honours & awards Socially responsible investment Sustainability reports News archive Contact us |
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| | Compendium of Sixteen Encyclopedias - Study Guide |
| | Unity of Knowledge (in Transdisciplinary Research for Sustainability) | | | The content outline provides a topical index (about 46,000) within all the encyclopedias, is indicated under the Content Outline (see below). | | | Introduction to Energy and Energy Related Concepts of Sustainability |
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| | Earth Vision: Sustainability Neighborhood (Sustainable Development) |
| | France, Hungary, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands were all presented with an award that recognizes outstanding contributions to sustainable development. | | | HUNGARY, June 14, 2004 – The winners of the European Environmental Awards 2004 were announced. | | | RICHMOND, VA, May 30, 2004 - A study blamed pollution for the death of underwater grasses in the Chesapeake Bay last year. |
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