CAUSES Mini Lecture: Urban Sustainability

My name is Sabine O’Hara, and I serve as the University of the District of Columbia’s Director of Landgrant Programs and Dean of the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences - CAUSES for short. Sustainability and sustainable-development are terms that are everywhere these days. Companies issue sustainability statements, cities have sustainability agendas, government agencies, like the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), for example, claim to use sustainability as the guiding principle for everything they do and not just as a partial agenda, and international organizations like the European Union and the United Nations have sustainability goals. So what exactly does it mean to be sustainable?