There is no singular definition of Sustainability and the word is starting to become a commonly used term with a diverse scope from environmental to social issues. The author believes that sustainability or sustain means to maintain or continue, survival, maintenance, continuity, not losing ground or going backwards. The author typed in “Definition of Sustainability” in Google and received almost two million hits. The Environmental Protection Agency/EPA (2012) provided the following definition of sustainability:
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Seigel, J. S. (2013). The Green Building Revolution: Advancing Sustainability at Exponential Speed. In CSR, Sustainability, Ethics and Governance (pp. 253–264). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37018-2_12
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