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A search engine will return billions of results in less than a second to anyone searching for ‘sustainability’. Sustainability is discussed every day: at work, in the news, and at home. But what does it actually mean for communities, teams, and individuals globally?
The most simple and practical way to explain sustainability is this: being sustainable means being able to last for a long time and succeed in one’s mission. At the global level, sustainable development is about ‘meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of the future generations to meet their own needs.’
At the organizational level, sustainability is about being able to both achieve business objectives and serve the community and future generations.
1.1 The triple bottom line
Many people still only associate sustainability with environmental issues. However, sustainable businesses consider all three pillars of sustainability; this approach is known as the triple bottom line. The three pillars are:
* environmental impact on the natural environment, such as energy consumption, greenhouse gas emission, deforestation, pollution, and so on
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