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sustainability

Vaughn Tan3rd January 2021 at 3:33pm

The ability of a process or system to persist, ideally indefinitely. One often-overlooked aspect of sustainability is innovation. In this newsletter, sustainability is often not far in the background in discussions of product, design, the food industry, restaurants, low-intervention wine, and regenerative agriculture.

See also: adaptability, affordances, agathonicity, freedom, inefficiency, long-term view, maintenance by design, resilience, uncertain futures.