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Healthy Environment
Sustainability focuses on existing within a physical environment and natural ecosystem and tries to find ways to co-exist with that environment. It does its part to avoid unnecessary degradation of the air, oceans, fresh water, and other natural systems. It tries to replace detrimental practices with those that allow ecosystems to continuously renew themselves. In some cases, this means simply protecting what is already there by finding ways to redirect human activities and development into less sensitive areas. But to fully embrace sustainability actions may need to be taken to reclaim, restore, or rehabilitate an already-damaged ecosystem such as a nearby wetland.