Back in the days Sustainability / Sustainable Development was quoted as follows:

"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It contains within two key concepts:

• the concepts of ‘needs’, in particular the essential needs of the world’s poor, to which overriding priority should be given; and

• The idea of limitations imposed by the state of technology and social organizations on the environment’s ability to meet present and future needs.”

(find out more on: World Commission on Environment and Development (1987); Our Common Future; Oxford University Press: Oxford)


Is it still current? Would you like to add something? How can we reach this Sustainable Development?