"A sustainable facility is a facility that incorporates sustainable attributes and characteristics; is delivered following sustainable processes; consumes resources in a sustainable way, both in its delivery and in its operations and maintenance; and meets the needs of its stakeholders without compromising the ability of other stakeholders to fulfill their own facility needs, from an environmental, social, and economic perspectives, in the present and in the future."
-J. A. Vanegas, Sustainability Science and Engineering: Defining principles
This is a heavy week when it comes to reading.
We are covering fascinating subjects with a lot of room for discussion and analysis. The challenges and opportunities that come with extending the decentralization management philosophy outside energy generation are great, in particular when we consider how this philosophy can be applied to developing countries whose populations are rapidly growing and who are rapidly increasing their per capita consumption.