What is Sustainability?

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Step 1. Read the text below. Sustainability is important for a very simple reason – the choices that we make today will decide if living species (including humans) will thrive now and in the future. In 1987, the Brundtland Commission (facilitated by the United Nations) provided a definition of sustainability that is still used today. The Commission … Continued