How about this: Sustainable--a practice, product, service, etc. that meets the needs of current generations without compromising the ability to meet the needs of future generations.
Leah Gibbons ========================================================== On 03/10/2006 01:54 PM GMT-08:00, Wayne Tyson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've heard "sustainable" applied to all sorts of things. If it's to be anything other than a buzzword to spin almost any bit of fluff into raiments for someone who wants to be "king," shouldn't it have a single definition that distinguishes its substance from its careless application to, for example, "biofuel" that has a net energy loss to native plants that need no subsidy at all? Seems a simple definition of just what principle defines it would bring more clarity and less confusion to the issues to which it may be attached, no? WT
