From Wikipedia.com: Sustainability is a characteristic of a process or state that can be maintained at a certain level indefinitely. The term, in its environmental usage, refers to the potential longevity of vital human ecological support systems, such as the planet’s climatic system, systems of agriculture, industry, forestry, fisheries, and the systems on which they depend. In recent years, public discourse has led to a use of “sustainability” in reference to how long human ecological systems can be expected to be usefully productive
How are we preparing ourselves to face community, island, state, national and international energy and food shortages?
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Image of Oahu’s Windward and North Shore by Google Earth (KHIS serves students in this area)
A 12 year old’s call to action back in 1992 from a UN conference held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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