Meeting the needs of the present generation without compromising the quality of future generations to meet their needs, can be described as the simplest way to define sustainability. We talked about this in the previous post; balancing economic development, social equity and environmental protection help organisations move towards a sustainable standing. What about sustainability on the global scale ? Sustainability and sustainable development are about striking a balance between environmental concerns of natural resources, techno-economic systems and their development and societal concerns of human capital, and social expectations. A melange of all these systems leads to meeting our present needs without compromising on the needs of the future. This definition forms the basis for defining all categories of sustainabilities in different areas of human activities. Now, environmental sustainability may be seen as the ability of an ecosystem to maintain and progress...