Definition of Sustainability

Sustainability is our society's ability to exist and develop without depleting all of the natural resources needed to live in the future.

Top 8 Ways to Live More Sustainably

• Recycle.

• Sell and donate unwanted items

• Reduce energy usage.

• Go paperless

• Eat less meat

• Grow your own produce

• Drive less.

• Save water

The idea of sustainability is often broken down into three pillars: economic, environmental, and social—also known informally as profits, planet, and people.

In that breakdown, the concept of "economic sustainability" focuses on conserving the natural resources that provide physical inputs for economic production, including both renewable and exhaustible inputs.

Non-sustainable products uses resources that cannot be replaced or replenished at the same speed that they are consumed. Products that rely on fossil fuels cannot be sustainable, because the resources used to make them can never be replaced. Other resources such as as rainforest timber, fishery stocks, sea corals, and other wildlife can be sustainable, if they are only harvested be limits that allow existing stocks to be replenished.