Definition of Sustainable Community What is a Sustainable Community? A sustainable community is one that is economically, environmentally, and socially healthy and resilient. It meets challenges through integrated solutions rather than through fragmented approaches that meet one of those goals at the expense of the others.
The remains of Riverside Hospital on North Brother Island, 2006. North and South Brother Islands are a pair of small islands located in New York City's East River between the Bronx and Rikers Island. North Brother Island was once the site of a hospital, but is now uninhabited and designated as a bird sanctuary. Until 1964, South Brother Island was part of Queens County (within Long Island City, beginning in 1870), but it is now part of Bronx County.
North America is comprised of three nations: the United States of America, Canada, and Mexico. The State of Hawaii is also a part of the United States, but it is not found on the same continent. Instead it is located in the middle of the central Pacific region. In fact, Hawaii is one of the few places in the world that is not considered to be part of any continent, along with a few other small island areas, such as New Zealand and French Polynesia.