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| What must allow for maintaining air, water, land and biosphere systems and must also maintain human well-being, the status of being healthy, happy and prosperous? |
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| Sustainable Environmental Systems |
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| What will not be achieved if certain groups are exposed to a disproportionate share of dirty jobs or waste material in the home or workplace? |
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| Sustainable Systems must include what? |
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| A consideration of externalities. |
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| What is the value of all products and services produced in a year in a given country? |
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| What includes measures of personal consumption, income distribution, levels of higher education, resource depletion, pollution and health of the population? |
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| Genuine Progress Indicator |
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| What can come from the natural systems on Earth, from humans, or from the manufactured products made by humans? |
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| Economic Assets (Capital) |
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| What is essential to systems that are sustainable? |
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| Valuing all three kinds of capital. |
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| When must a society determine the rules and regulations it wishes to enact? |
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| Once a society believes it has enough scientific information to act with the intent of protecting or reducing harm to its environment. |
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| What handles the area that offer protection to the environment and humans? |
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| A group of government agencies in the United States. |
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| What are enacted through passage and modification of laws? |
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| What fraction of the world population has inadequate housing and income? |
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| What must people have before they can be concerned about environmental sustainability? |
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| What have established objectives for improving the status of people and the sustainability of the environment? |
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| What maintains that humans have intrinsic value and nature provides for our needs? |
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| What holds that humans are one of many species on Earth, all of which have value? |
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| What places equal value on both all living organisms and ecosystems? |
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| What can lead to sustainable actions occurring at a greater level worldwide? |
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| Individual and Community Action |
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