Chapter 13Tools for Sustainability
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
—Albert Einstein
13.1 Introduction
Sustainability in a general sense is the capacity to maintain a certain process or state over a longer period, perhaps indefinitely. In the context of preserving the environment, it relates to uniting ‘the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’ (United Nations, 1987). In the context of Green Six Sigma, the sustainability of project outcomes includes both the longer-lasting stability of performance deliverables ...
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