• Self-sustainability and self-sufficiency are overlapping states of being in which a person, being, or system needs little or no help from, or interaction...
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    economic dimension of sustainability are controversial. Scholars have discussed this under the concept of weak and strong sustainability. For example, there...
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  • a 2010 list of major countries by food self-sufficiency rates on a calorie supply basis. Self-sustainability Food security "FAO statistical pocket book...
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    artificial nuclear reactor. On 2 December 1942, the first human-made self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was initiated in CP-1 during an experiment led...
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    discovery of evidence of natural self-sustaining nuclear chain reactions in the past at Oklo in Gabon in September 1972. To sustain a nuclear fission chain reaction...
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  • 1993 as the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario, APEO) is a self-regulatory body that licenses and governs Ontario's professional engineers...
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  • Autarky is the characteristic of self-sufficiency, usually applied to societies, communities, states, and their economic systems. Autarky as an ideology...
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    Preschool education Self Awareness Self-experimentation Self-healing Self-help groups for mental health Self (psychology) Self-sustainability Self-taught Sophism...
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    lead to a temperature rise. In most cases, heat production enables self-sustainability of the reaction, and enables a chain reaction to grow. The temperature...
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    nuns are community activists, promoting gender equality, environmental sustainability, and intercultural tolerance in their home villages in the Himalayas...
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  • Atmanirbhar Bharat, which translates to 'self-reliant India', is a phrase the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and his government used and popularised...
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    critical on 2 December 1942, demonstrating the first human-created, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. He was on hand when the X-10 Graphite Reactor...
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  • element of individualism Self-sustainability Self-help "Self-Reliance", an essay by transcendental writer Ralph Waldo Emerson Self Reliance, a 2023 film directed...
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  • the context, self-perpetuation either depends on self-sustainability, or is equivalent to it. While we may talk about the self-sustainability of an ecosystem...
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  • students with multiple disabilities for an economically independent and self-sustainable life. In 2012, Bolla started Bollant Industries, which manufactures...
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    design. When a nuclear chain reaction in a mass of fissile material is self-sustaining, the mass is said to be in a critical state in which there is no increase...
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    neutrons, and in turn emit neutrons when they break apart. This makes a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction possible, releasing energy at a controlled rate...
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  • responsiveness reusability robustness safety scalability seamlessness self-sustainability serviceability (a.k.a. supportability) securability (see Common subsets...
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    Radical sustainability is a movement that recognizes the holistic and integrated nature of sustainability, and according to the 2008 publication Toolbox...
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    Transition town (category Self-sustainability)
    transition model refer to grassroot community projects that aim to increase self-sufficiency to reduce the potential effects of peak oil, climate destruction...
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    to fall under the influence of gravity. This process establishes a self-sustaining flow of the chain which rises over the edge and goes down to the floor...
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  • economy. Sustainable living is fundamentally the application of sustainability to lifestyle choices and decisions. One conception of sustainable living...
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    Homesteading (category Self-sustainability)
    Homesteading is a lifestyle of self-sufficiency. It is characterized by subsistence agriculture, home preservation of food, and may also involve the small...
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    Silo (series) (category Self-published books)
    post-apocalyptic Earth. Humanity clings to survival in the Silo, a self-sustaining subterranean city with 144 floors. No records of the time before the...
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    required once the engine starts running and its feedback loop becomes self-sustaining. Before the advent of the starter motor, engines were started by various...
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    mining, quarrying, and demolition. This trade relies upon self-contained and self-sustained exothermic chemical reactions to make heat, light, gas, smoke...
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    Generation ship (category Self-sustainability)
    the ship and population size. Such a ship would have to be entirely self-sustaining, providing life support for everyone aboard. It must have extraordinarily...
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    originates from the temperate to subtropical areas of South America. Self-sustaining feral populations occur in many places, mainly in areas of similar...
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    on social capital. The innovation must be widely adopted in order to self-sustain. Within the rate of adoption, there is a point at which an innovation...
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  • fetal ejection reflex) is the neuroendocrine reflex comprising the self-sustaining cycle of uterine contractions initiated by pressure at the cervix,...
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