Honorable Mention - Sustainability? By Lillie Pennington, PhD student, UC Merced, with Cinita Pertiwi. The term sustainability has been a topic of consideration in academic publications, but has the word lost its meaning? This short conversation with a UC Merced PhD student brings to light some of the issues of overuse and truth behind sustainability. In the end, it may not be as important to understand what sustainability is as what sustainability is for. (#33630)