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Introducing Sustainable Development

"Sustainable development seeks to meet the needs and aspirations of the present without compromising the ability to meet those of the future." UN Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987.

Image credits: CC-BY SA: Andrew, "Three Pillars of Sustainability," 2008. 

For a more broader introduction, read from the open source text book, Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundationpublished out of Rice University.

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