ALLIANCE, Ohio, Aug. 20 -- Mount Union College issued the following news release:

Sustainability has gone from a vague, undefined word to a phrase with a life of its own. Yet, many still wonder what it really entails. Sustainability is a "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" - a definition that was created in 1987 at the World Commission on Environment and Development.