Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles D. Turner

continue to design, build and develop until we push ourselves to thepoint where we can no longer support the infrastructure we have constructed? Certainly, thereshould be some unifying principle that can be taught in an introductory environmental engineeringclass that will some how convince students that it is possible for engineers to be part of thesolution and not contribute to our own destruction. Is human life and civilization sustainable orwill we extinguish ourselves? Contained in these questions is today’s environmental buzzword - sustainability. Theterm used in a politically correct context is “sustainable development”. Sustainable development