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Off Campus Access

Access to many of the database links on this guide requires NSCC authentication - users must sign in with their NSCC My Northshore (formerly Pipeline) username & password

If you want to place any library materials on hold, request a book from another library, or check out any physical library materials out you will need to have your NSCC ID card.

Stop by the Student Life Office in Danvers (DB 132) or Lynn (LW 171) with a current class schedule and a picture ID to get an NSCC ID.

Sustainability

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Definition of Enivronmental Sustainability
"A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels"---
Albert Einstein

To define environmental sustainability we must first define sustainability.

Sustainability is the ability to continue a defined behavior indefinitely. To define what environmental sustainability is we turn to the experts.

Herman Daly, one of the early pioneers of ecological sustainability, looked at the problem from a maintenance of natural capital viewpoint. In 1990 he proposed that:

1. For renewable resources, the rate of harvest should not exceed the rate of regeneration (sustainable yield);

2. [For pollution] The rates of waste generation from projects should not exceed the assimilative capacity of the environment (sustainable waste disposal); and

3. For nonrenewable resources the depletion of the nonrenewable resources should require comparable development of renewable substitutes for that resource.

Coordinator of Public Services, Lynn Campus

Torrey Dukes

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North Shore Community College
Lynn Campus Library
1 Ferncroft Rd
Danvers, MA 01923

781-593-6722 ext.6244