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Executive Director s Perspective
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<br />'le the concept of "sustainability" is easily understood and appears to be accepted, the practical and
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<br />practiced in society today.
<br />Perhaps that is because society does not see sustainability as important to be defined as the next "age", or as
<br />Richard Neville puts it in Footprints of the Future, "The Sustainability Revolution' will follow the Agricultural,
<br />Industrial, and Knowledge Revolutions in history. .,
<br />Neville lists the things that are "disappearing" at the end of the current age: childhood, time, certainty, "
<br />distance, privacy, secrets, jobs for life, loyalty to institutions, and fresh water. ~' f ,'
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<br />FACETS December 2003
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