sustainability
the ability to be sustained, supported, upheld, or confirmed.
Environmental Science. the quality of not being harmful to the environment or depleting natural resources, and thereby supporting long-term ecological balance: The committee is developing sustainability standards for products that use energy.
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How to use sustainability in a sentence
I think we’ve been okay at bringing women and minorities into the firm, but I don’t think we’ve created the environment that creates the sustainability of them wanting to be there.
Citigroup names Jane Fraser CEO, shattering Wall Street’s glass ceiling | Maria Aspan | September 10, 2020 | FortuneShe studies sustainability — how to use resources so they are available in the future — at Arizona State University in Tempe.
A single chemical may draw lonely locusts into a hungry swarm | Jonathan Lambert | September 7, 2020 | Science News For StudentsSolarpunk is gorgeous by most measures and serves as an umbrella term for an aesthetic and ideology that emphasizes biomimicry, greenery, and mind-blowing architectonic structures built to enable sustainability and self-sufficiency.
Solarpunk Is Growing a Gorgeous New World in the Cracks of the Old One | Carin Ism | September 6, 2020 | Singularity HubThrilling recently launched a collaboration with Banana Republic to promote sustainability in fashion.
The CEO striving to make vintage, secondhand clothing as popular as fast fashion | Rachel King | September 6, 2020 | FortuneIt’s by including people of color in sustainability conversations that Matthews thinks that efforts to improve infrastructure will make a difference.
Uncharted Power’s Jessica O. Matthews has a plan to revive America’s crumbling infrastructure | Brooke Henderson | August 23, 2020 | Fortune
The next step toward greater sustainability would be to turn those solar canopies into fueling stations.
But increasingly, when it comes to energy use and sustainability, parking lots are actually becoming part of the solution.
Michelle also advanced an aggressive policy agenda combining accountability with parent choice and fiscal sustainability.
The CleanTech Open Global Forum, where they won the National sustainability award in 2013, has lauded his proprietary system.
America’s Next Agricultural Revolution Will Happen Indoors | Sarah Kunst | April 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut the New Year is also about planning ahead, refining a longer-term vision of balance and sustainability.
What to Drink in 2014: 13 Chefs and Critics Picks | Jordan Salcito | January 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
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