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Comparing ‘environmentalism’ and ‘sustainability’

Comparing ‘environmentalism’ and ‘sustainability’

Sustainability champion and educator, Alan AtKisson, compares these two concepts. There is a modest, but growing, movement within the museum field that is promoting the importance of sustainability, or at least operational efficiency (to reduce costs and waste). I wonder how museum professionals are grappling with these concepts, because there are some fundamental differences in the two approaches?