In an earlier post, I argued that the scope of ’sustainability’ extends beyond the dominant concerns of low carbon design and energy conservation and how we need to continuously commit to the core principles of sustainable development rather than allow a shallow linguistic fatigue persuade us to abandon the term, simply because we are tired of it.

This is underlined in the Top 10 Myths about Sustainability published recently in Scientific American, which also dispels the idea that sustainability means lowering our standard of living (Myth 6) and that new technology is always the answer (Myth 8).

These are all interesting correctives, though I would have preferred to see even greater emphasis on social sustainability and the importance of it to achieving widespread human happiness.

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