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71Sustainable design — Within the fashion industry, sustainable design refers to environmental stewardship, such as products that are ecological, organic, or recycled. Sustainable products are those products providing environmental, social, and economic benefit… …
72Sustainable business — A business is sustainable if it has adapted its practices for the use of renewable resources and holds itself accountable for the environmental and human rights impacts of its activities. This includes businesses that operate in a socially… …
73Sustainable city — A sustainable city, ecocity or ecopolis is an entire city dedicated to minimizing the required inputs (of energy, water and food) and its waste output (of heat, air pollution as CO2, methane, and water pollution.) Richard Register first coined… …
74Sustainable Development — Beispiel für Nachhaltigkeit im Naturschutz: Nutzung von Naturschutzgebieten durch extensive Grünlandwirtschaft („extensive Nutzung durch Mähen verhindert gleichzeitig die Verbuschung der Grünlandfläche“). Das Konzept der Nachhaltigkeit beschreibt …
75Sustainable Building Alliance — La SB Alliance es una iniciativa internacional sin fines de lucro promovida por la Unesco chair for sustainable Building y la iniciativa edificio y construcción sostenible del PNUMA. LA SB Alliance Sustainable Building Alliance[1] es una red de… …
76Sustainable Agriculture Innovation Network — The China UK Sustainable Agriculture Innovation Network (SAIN) is a Sustainable agriculture Network launched in 2008 to provide a framework for collaboration on agriculture and climate change between the UK and China. The agreement supports the… …
77Sustainable industries — The earliest mention of the phrase sustainable industries appeared in 1990 in a story about a Japanese group reforesting a tropical forest to help create sustainable industries for the local populace. (Dietrich, Bill. Our Troubled Earth – Japan.… …
78Sustainable Governance Indicators — Die Sustainable Governance Indicators (SGI) sind ein Projekt der Bertelsmann Stiftung. Die SGI bewerten anhand 147 einzelner Indikatoren systematisch den Reformbedarf in Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft sowie die Reform und… …
79Sustainable community energy system — A sustainable community energy system is an integrated approach to supplying a local community with its energy requirements from renewable energy or high efficiency co generation energy sources. The approach can be seen as a development of the… …
80sustainable — [[t]səste͟ɪnəb(ə)l[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED You use sustainable to describe the use of natural resources when this use is kept at a steady level that is not likely to damage the environment. ...the management, conservation and sustainable development… …
