Sustainable

Word SUSTAINABLE
Character 11
Hyphenation sus tain a ble
Pronunciations /səˈsteɪnəbəl/

Definitions and meanings of "Sustainable"

What do we mean by sustainable?

Capable of being sustained. adjective

Capable of being continued with minimal long-term effect on the environment. adjective

Capable of being sustained or maintained: as, the action is not sustainable.

Capable of being sustained or maintained. adjective

Able to be sustained. adjective

Able to be sustained for an indefinite period without damaging the environment, or without depleting a resource; renewable. adjective

Capable of being sustained adjective

Able to be sustained.

Able to be produced or sustained for an indefinite period without damaging the environment, or without depleting a resource; renewable.

Adj. Concerned with trendy, liberal, or faddish causes, especially alarmist environmentalism and anti-capitalism. An activity or product is described as sustainable if it promotes a hippy agenda, regardless of whether the activity in question has any particular ability to be sustained over a long time period or not. Urban Dictionary

The ability to achieve, and sustain a male erection. Urban Dictionary

Someone who is extremely picky about all things sustainable. Will call other people on their unsustainable behaviour. Combination of sustainable and anal. Urban Dictionary

Sustainability is a lens through which to view all issues. The sustainability movement encompasses environmental justice and social justice, because one cannot be obtained without the other. It means living life to the fullest without compromising future generations' ability to do so. It respects the interconectedness of all life and acknowledges the responsibility that each person has to consider the effects that his actions have on other life forms, both living and to be born. Urban Dictionary

The ability to endure a balence of economic, social and environmenal well being now and in the future. Urban Dictionary

To hold up, to bear with Urban Dictionary

A word that left leaning urban Caucasians coined to feel good about themselves. Urban Dictionary

Repeatable indefinitely with no negative side effect whatsoever. Urban Dictionary

1. A hippy dippy cosmic cupcake term loosely applied to just about everything environment related to sound like you know what the fuck you're talking about. Urban Dictionary

That which keeps something in existence. (The similar word "sustenance" usually means food.) Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Sustainable

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The word "sustainable" in example sentences

Everyone also likes the term "sustainable development," and they can even parrot back the Brundtland definition a United Nations commission, formed in 1983 and named for the Norwegian politician Gro Harlem Brundtland, said that development should meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. ❋ Gregory Unruh (2011)

So be careful with the term "sustainable consumption." ❋ Gregory Unruh (2011)

And as the crisis of the oceans becomes clearer, the term "sustainable farming" is gaining as much resonance for the sea as for land - and is just as difficult to achieve. ❋ By ARTHUR MAX (2011)

Critics, who charge that the NPPF is heavily skewed in favour of economic development over social or environmental concerns, have demanded a clear definition of the term "sustainable development". ❋ Damian Carrington (2011)

I've been in over a dozen meetings now with organizations like the World Economic Forum and the U.N. Global Compact where people use the word "sustainable consumption." ❋ Gregory Unruh (2011)

Wouldn't it be great if in 5 years the term sustainable no longer exists because we will have accomplished just that - sustaining the planet. ❋ Unknown (2009)

With smarts, creativity and innovation, and before the term sustainable development was even widely used, CNT has been demonstrating its unique brand of sustainable development: development that is good for the economy and the environment; makes better use of existing resources and community assets; and improves the health of natural systems and the wealth of people—today and in the future. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Energy produced and used in ways that support human development over the long term, in all its social, economic, and environmental dimensions, is what is meant in this report by the term sustainable energy. ❋ Unknown (2000)

The term sustainable agriculture is widely used today to describe agriculture that has the goals of conserving the environment for the future and providing nutritious food for all people equitably (section 1.2). ❋ Unknown (1991)

The term sustainable means different things to different people. ❋ Unknown (2010)

California vintners use the term sustainable to describe their winemaking methods. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You begin to think like nature, in terms of building blocks that are fashioned into what I call sustainable materials platforms that can be used flexibly by many different products, and even by different companies. ❋ Gregory Unruh (2011)

[Fair trade] [coffee] is a sustainable [brand]. ❋ Zamzara (2007)

At my age, sustainability is not a [concern]! [Achievment] is my [greatest] concern! ❋ Talk2me-JCH2 (2021)

Mike is so [sustainal], he criticized me for throwing my [banana peel] in the wrong [bin]. Stop being sustainal, Mike, get a life! ❋ R-NO (2010)

The sustainability revolution is begining! Watch out you [styrofoam] using, [carbon cycle] ignoring, TV worshiping members of American [consumer] culture. ❋ Holly And Melissa (2005)

[learned] about [sustainability] in [geography] class. ❋ ZMeeKeRz (2011)

She [bearly] sustained [the bucket] with one [hand]. ❋ Iliiiii (2006)

Joe: I like shopping at [Whole Foods] because they have a strong sense of [sustainability]. Mike: You want sustainability? Go find a piece of land, work that shit, do your own thing, quit [being a pussy], and shut the fuck up! ❋ Rastarealist (2010)

I think this new [training] [schedule] could be [sustainable] ❋ Xeidor (2023)

I was at the [Co-op] the other day eating vegan [snickerdoodle], when a girl complemented my hemp bracelet. I started talking about how the bracelet and the vegan snickerdoodle were related to [sustainability], she was so impressed I ended up giving her...the sustainable d. ❋ Professor T. Bigglesworth (2015)

The large numbers of [high income] people who were covered by corporate and government health [insurance] contributed to the sustainance of the [outmoded] health insurance system. ❋ PhoenixFirebird (2010)

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