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The WEconomy Index
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The information is based on the WEconomy Index 2015 written by students from the Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands General theory Sustainability and sustainable development are terms that have been growing in popularity since the European Commission came with its Brundtland Report in 1987. Sustainable development refers to development that meets our own needs (as a society) without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. The Brundtland report asked for a transition to sustainable development to meet the needs of the poor while not increasing environmental problems and pointed at problems such as air and water pollution, depletion of groundwater, and the proliferation of toxic chemicals and hazardous waste that many industrialized and developing countries are dealing with. These problems are inherited from one generation to another. Moreover, new problems have arisen that are directly related to agricultural, industrial, energy, forestry, and transportation policies and practices. Erosion, desertification, acidification, new chemicals and new forms of waste are the undesired consequences of these practices and still, most of these problems have not been dealt with accordingly. This calls for a social as well as an economic transition towards a greener and more sustainable economy. 
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