
6 Principles of Sustainable Energy Systems
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sustainability champions. At this time, there are no regulations requiring corporations to
consider sustainability or to ensure the well-being of stakeholders. Consideration of sus-
tainability is currently treated more as an option or a corporate marketing approach than
a necessary social requirement.
1.1.4 Challenges for Sustainability Engineering
The challenge for the engineering professions is to institute sustainability consid-
erations in all projects and operations in much the same way that safety issues are
included. Safety engineering requires honesty with em