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English translation: advocates of sustainability

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Italian term or phrase:	sostenibilisti
English translation:	advocates of sustainability
Entered by:	Being Earnest

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14:56 Jun 23, 2010

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Italian term or phrase: sostenibilisti

Full sentence is:

Da una parte i sostenibilisti che considerano la natura una risorsa da gestire. Dall’altra i conservazionisti, che insistono sulla sacralità della natura e parlano di sconfitta per qualsiasi danno infitto dall’uomo all’ecosistema” e, ancora, “per i conservazionisti il compromesso è impossibile.

Is there a term fort this or is it simply supporters

Being Earnest KudoZ activity Questions: 243 (none open) (45 closed without grading) Answers: 1361 Italy
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advocates of sustainability

Explanation:
Though I don't agree that advocates of sustainability regard nature as a resource to be managed - they seem to be misunderstanding the word, perhaps deliberately.

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philgoddard
Local time: 05:00

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in the context this is the best answer
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

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4 +7

advocates of sustainability

philgoddard

4 +1

Sustainability lobby/sustainability campaigners

manducci

3 +2

sustainabilist

Shera Lyn Parpia

3 +1

sustainability movement

xxxMr Murray

assertors of sustainability

Irene Argenti

Summary of reference entries provided
somebody's debated this already!	Shera Lyn Parpia

Discussion entries: 2

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5 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +7

advocates of sustainability

Explanation:
Though I don't agree that advocates of sustainability regard nature as a resource to be managed - they seem to be misunderstanding the word, perhaps deliberately.

philgoddard
Local time: 05:00
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 12

Grading comment

in the context this is the best answer

9 mins confidence:

assertors of sustainability

Explanation:
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Irene Argenti
Italy
Local time: 12:00
Native speaker of:

Italian

35 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

sustainabilist

Explanation:
it does exist - try and google it! A neologism .... Though whether you want to use it is another question.

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Note added at 37 mins (2010-06-23 15:34:05 GMT)
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Sara Blenkhorn - Email, Address, Phone numbers, everything ...
Student, social entrepreneur, systems thinker, fire spinner, animal lover, micro finance advocat, sustainabilist. twellow.com ...
www.123people.com/s/sara blenkhorn - Stati Uniti

FAQ: On the subject of the creation of Space
means do you favour Modern, Postmodern, Deconstructivist, Minimalist, Bio-technicist, Pro-Green Sustainabilist, or whatever? Or are you against 'Modernism' ...
www.johnoutram.com/fstyle.html - Copia cache

Sustainability: Reflections on a Smart Imperative
I hope that history will remember my generation as the sustainabilist one. Sustainability is a smart, ethical, and economic imperative for all human beings. ...
www.scu.edu/ethics/.../sustainability.html - Stati Uniti

Shera Lyn Parpia
Italy
Local time: 12:00
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 20

56 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

sustainability movement

Explanation:
The question asks "is there a term fort [sic] this or is it simply supporters"? I would instinctively go with supporters - but the whole text is obviously trying to malke the difference between two types of supporters - sostenibilisti and conservazionisti.

So it's a case of comparing movements or trends.

We could translate 'sostenibilisti' as 'advocates of sustainability' - or better something shorter like 'sustainability advocates'.

Still I believe there is already a common idiom for this movement: sustainability movement

I feel there's no single accepted noun like 'sustainabilists' or similar.

Example sentences

The publication of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson marked another major milestone for the sustainability movement."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_living

"What is "the sustainability movement"? What are its roots, and where is it going?

http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC25/Gilman.htm

xxxMr Murray
Italy
Native speaker of:

English

4 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

Sustainability lobby/sustainability campaigners

Explanation:

HTH

Example sentence(s):

Let’s have clean transport and energy in socially integrated cities but lets make it for the people of that city rather than for a quasi-religious vision of the planet or, as is now increasingly common amongst the sustainability lobby, for a dystopian v
On top of this, environmentalists and the sustainability lobby are raising ever stronger voices resisting the despoilment of the countryside and the depletion of natural resources that accompany aggregate extraction.

Reference: http://www.blueprintmagazine.co.uk/index.php/architecture/56...
Reference: http://ict.concrete.org.uk/downloads/yearbooks/ict_2005.pdf

manducci
Local time: 12:00
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English

Reference comments

32 mins

Reference: somebody's debated this already!

Reference information:
This link will give you some ideas - and maybe draw a few chuckles!

Reference: http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/fugitives/susta...

Shera Lyn Parpia
Italy
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 20

Note to reference poster

Asker: Thank you so much - very interesting and indeed funny in places....

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