Sustainability within the
context of tech-driven community economic development
implies smart uses of natural, economic environmental,
financial, geographic and technological resources
available to increase the global competitiveness of our
communities in the 21st century global marketplace. Sustainable techniques and practices, strategically
integrated with certain emerging applied technologies,
can increase tech-driven business attraction, retention,
expansion and creation. In the case of the built
environment, sustainability refers to renewable,
recyclable and bio-degradable resource alternatives
which are integrated or blended with certain
conventional sources to achieve useful life extension to
built assets and to the environment or ecosystem within
which they are built.
Sustainability can also be
viewed as the dynamic interactive relationships between
people, places and things that are built within the
context of their natural, physical, economic and
geographic environments or ecosystems that serve as host
to them. Within this context, sustainability refers to
the convergence and integration of certain resources in
relationship to strategic community economic development
applications…the success of which can increase the
global marketplace competitiveness, local
energy-efficiency and environmental friendliness of our
communities.
