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• s  able to provide for your own needs without help from others

• But the most influential microlenders--Yunus' Grameen Bank, FINCA, Accin International--are self-sustaining and profitable.
• He's an environmental poster child for people who dream about pristine prairies and use terms like self-sustaining and zero carbon footprint.
• After years of dust and dirt, piggybacking off gold miners in South Africa, they identified self-sustaining bacteria living in rock deep below the surface that draw their energy .

• self-sufficient
• self-sufficing

News & Articles

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• Ticonderoga's Youth Recreation Program is back
  Activities from 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, July 8 to Aug. 2, at Ticonderoga Elementary/Middle School will be self-sustaining, with a $10 per day fee and help from the Kiwanis Club.
  June 16, 2013 - Plattsburgh Press-Republican
• Dow up, Nikkei down: Days of market volatility put focus on central banks
  Recent market volatility is a sign of investor unease more than of panic. Investors see a global economy struggling to develop self-sustaining momentum, five years after a financial crisis, and are uncertain what central banks plan to do next about it.
  June 13, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor
• Uh, Why Is an Artist Living Inside a Floating Wooden Egg For a Year?
  There's a strong probability you'd go crazy living inside of an egg, despite the fact that you actually came from one. But artist Stephen Turner is up to the challenge. Starting this month, he'll be taking up residence in the Exbury Egg , a self-sustaining studio/home/boat/monument to fertility, for the next 365 days. Read more...        
  June 12, 2013 - Gizmodo

Quotes

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• Ben Bernanke in Wall Street Journal
  Though we have begun to see some improvement in economic activity, we still have some way to go before we can be assured that the recovery will be self-sustaining,Bernanke said.
• Stephen Harper in CBC.ca
  Our Canadian Forces members in Afghanistan daily face life-threatening situations that are created by an enemy who is working to undermine the building of a democratic and self-sustaining society,Harper said. "The courage and dedication...
• Joe Biden in Forbes
  The only way which you can have a prospect of ending a self-sustaining cycle of sectarian violence is to separate the combatants and give them a political way forward,said Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.