How this teen’s quest to define ‘sustainability’ changed state law

October 17, 2014 (The Tyee)—When Trevor Tanaka was in Grade 11, he had a life-changing realization. It came after he entered an essay contest asking him to describe why “sustainability” is important. “It should have been easy,” he said. But in trying to define one ecological buzzword all he could think of were others. His essay was a series of generalizations about things like clean energy and organic food. “I really had no idea what I was writing about,” he said. “That’s when I decided, wow, I should really look into this.”
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