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    This edition is dedicated to sustainability. Sustainable behaviors, promotion of sustainability, finding sustainable opportunities and dealing with problems that work against sustainability are all topics of discussion in this edition. In fact, the call for papers was so successful we will publish additional sustainability papers in coming editions. Our editors for this represent an outstanding group of sustainability conscious professionals. Dr. Vivek Varma was the initiator of the edition. Dr. Lisa Friedman contributed significant time and the perspective piece for the edition, while Eduardo Armando offered his global insight. Their dedication to the issues of sustainability is evident in this edition and reflective of the new global sustainability movement. This is a truly exciting time in human history. Sustainability is a very diverse, and in many ways difficult, problem to define. Perhaps the word problem is the real issue here however. Sustainability can and should be a solution, or an opportunity. Nearly everyone can agree that reserves of oil will run out some day and that capturing solar power and wind power is currently expensive. Of course one could also argue that automobiles are more expensive than horses, but that didn’t stop society from adopting the automobile. Sometimes things are more expensive because they are better. Looking at the issue as an economist would, most of our accomplishments of the 20th century were in large part to our ability to transport people and items efficiently around the globe, something that would have been impossible without the combustion engine. Also, there are still horses for those that like to ride. Really envisioning a sustainable world may be more difficult than just imagining cars with no exhaust, wind turbines, solar panels and the end to brown haze over our cities. It means incredible new innovations that come from those things. After all, the internal combustion engine didn’t only mean cars and faster transportation; it meant a change in our civilization. What incredible innovations will arise from a sustainable world is still unknown.

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    This edition is dedicated to sustainability. Sustainable behaviors, promotion of sustainability, finding sustainable opportunities and dealing with problems that work against sustainability are all topics of discussion in this edition. In fact, the call for papers was so successful we will publish additional sustainability papers in coming editions. Our editors for this represent an outstanding group of sustainability conscious professionals. Dr. Vivek Varma was the initiator of the edition. Dr. Lisa Friedman contributed significant time and the perspective piece for the edition, while Eduardo Armando offered his global insight. Their dedication to the issues of sustainability is evident in this edition and reflective of the new global sustainability movement. This is a truly exciting time in human history. Sustainability is a very diverse, and in many ways difficult, problem to define. Perhaps the word problem is the real issue here however. Sustainability can and should be a solution, or an opportunity. Nearly everyone can agree that reserves of oil will run out some day and that capturing solar power and wind power is currently expensive. Of course one could also argue that automobiles are more expensive than horses, but that didn’t stop society from adopting the automobile. Sometimes things are more expensive because they are better. Looking at the issue as an economist would, most of our accomplishments of the 20th century were in large part to our ability to transport people and items efficiently around the globe, something that would have been impossible without the combustion engine. Also, there are still horses for those that like to ride. Really envisioning a sustainable world may be more difficult than just imagining cars with no exhaust, wind turbines, solar panels and the end to brown haze over our cities. It means incredible new innovations that come from those things. After all, the internal combustion engine didn’t only mean cars and faster transportation; it meant a change in our civilization. What incredible innovations will arise from a sustainable world is still unknown.

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    March 2011 Issue IJIS - Overview - Sustainabilty and Innovation

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    This edition is dedicated to sustainability. Sustainable behaviors, promotion of sustainability, finding sustainable opportunities and dealing with problems that work against sustainability are all topics of discussion in this edition. In fact, the call for papers was so successful we will publish additional sustainability papers in coming editions. Our editors for this represent an outstanding group of sustainability conscious professionals. Dr. Vivek Varma was the initiator of the edition. Dr. Lisa Friedman contributed significant time and the perspective piece for the edition, while Eduardo Armando offered his global insight. Their dedication to the issues of sustainability is evident in this edition and reflective of the new global sustainability movement. This is a truly exciting time in human history. Sustainability is a very diverse, and in many ways difficult, problem to define. Perhaps the word problem is the real issue here however. Sustainability can and should be a solution, or an opportunity. Nearly everyone can agree that reserves of oil will run out some day and that capturing solar power and wind power is currently expensive. Of course one could also argue that automobiles are more expensive than horses, but that didn’t stop society from adopting the automobile. Sometimes things are more expensive because they are better. Looking at the issue as an economist would, most of our accomplishments of the 20th century were in large part to our ability to transport people and items efficiently around the globe, something that would have been impossible without the combustion engine. Also, there are still horses for those that like to ride. Really envisioning a sustainable world may be more difficult than just imagining cars with no exhaust, wind turbines, solar panels and the end to brown haze over our cities. It means incredible new innovations that come from those things. After all, the internal combustion engine didn’t only mean cars and faster transportation; it meant a change in our civilization. What incredible innovations will arise from a sustainable world is still unknown.

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    Limited Resources
    With the global economy seemingly moving towards growth after several years of recession the global
    commodities market reminds us once again reminded of our limited resources. Copper (↑8.21%),
    Natural Gas (↑12.12%), Oil (↑6.56%) and other basic commodities are up, with the numbers above are
    January alone. The Commodity Food Index is up 6.77% yet one of the factors attributed to the unrest
    in the Middle East are food shortages. While a higher global standard of living has many benefits,
    including greater security and stability, it comes with many risks - increases in pollutants, greater
    demand for high quality proteins and the almost insatiable demand for many commodities will stress
    to earth in ways we as humans have never known.
    Sustainability is a very diverse, and in many ways difficult, problem to define. Perhaps the word
    problem is the real issue here however. Sustainability can and should be a solution, or an opportunity.
    Nearly everyone can agree that reserves of oil will run out some day and that capturing solar power and
    wind power is currently expensive. Of course one could also argue that automobiles are more expensive
    than horses, but that didn’t stop society from adopting the automobile. Sometimes things are more
    expensive because they are better. Looking at the issue as an economist would, most of our
    accomplishments of the 20th century were in large part to our ability to transport people and items
    efficiently around the globe, something that would have been impossible without the combustion
    engine. Also, there are still horses for those that like to ride. Really envisioning a sustainable world may
    be more difficult than just imagining cars with no exhaust, wind turbines, solar panels and the end to
    brown haze over our cities. It means incredible new innovations that come from those things. After all,
    the internal combustion engine didn’t only mean cars and faster transportation; it meant a change in our
    civilization. What incredible innovations will arise from a sustainable world is still unknown.
    This edition is dedicated to sustainability. Sustainable behaviors, promotion of sustainability, finding
    sustainable opportunities and dealing with problems that work against sustainability are all topics of
    discussion in this edition. In fact, the call for papers was so successful we will publish additional
    sustainability papers in coming editions. Our editors for this represent an outstanding group of
    sustainability conscious professionals. Dr. Vivek Varma was the initiator of the edition. Dr. Lisa
    Friedman contributed significant time and the perspective piece for the edition, while Eduardo Armando
    offered his global insight. Their dedication to the issues of sustainability is evident in this edition and
    reflective of the new global sustainability movement. This is a truly exciting time in human history.

    Happy Earth Day,

    Brett E. Trusko, PhD


    Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Innovation Science
    Assistant Professor
    Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY

    Volume 3 · Number 1 · 2011


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