In thirty years, our obsessive application of this concept narrowly to fossil fuels and CO2 production will seem as misguided as a nineteenth century fixation on conserving whale oil and cleaning up horse manure in the city streets.

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"It was the application of an old concept to a new area, " says Narayanan.

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To give one an idea of exactly how bizarre the application of a seemingly simple concept like sustainability has become, consider the proposed Oregon Sustainability Center in Portland.

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Sensible enough in concept, the definition is maddeningly vague in application, largely because it is based upon a 1974 General Assembly resolution that was aimed at guiding state conduct, not defining individual criminal liability.

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This is basically the Open Source concept, where sites like IdeaScale facilitate the outsourcing of application development to the Internet community in the form of an open call.

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The concept of Cultural Heritage of Humanity translates the understanding that its application is universal.

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Hacker mentality implies a joyful application of intelligence to problem solving, rejecting the concept of work as repetitive, burdensome and stupid, Spadaro wrote.

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On Wednesday the concept of the proposed Cheltenham development project was shown to council officers in advance of a detailed planning application being submitted in April 2013.

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