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DescriptionThis category deals with environmental sustainability on a global geographic scale.

Some starting points for the topic of environnmental sustainability in general:

ACTIVITIES ARE SUSTAINABLE WHEN THEY:

1 Use materials in continuous cycles.

2 Use continuously reliable sources of energy.

3 Come mainly from the non-destructive use of materials (i.e. creativity, communication, coordination, appreciation, and spiritual and intellectual development.)

ACTIVITIES ARE NOT SUSTAINABLE WHEN THEY:

4 Require continual inputs of non-renewable resources.

5 Use renewable resources faster than their rate of renewal.

6 Cause cumulative degradation of the environment.

7 Require resources in quantities that undermine other people's well-being.

8 Lead to the extinction of other life forms.

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