sustainability

I've been to a bunch of conferences for the past year. community media, grassroots media, media policy...and there has been a 'hijacking' of 'sustainability' as a term used in the emerging business models of community media and technology organizations referring to funding. I imagine that there is a sense of the organization giving back to the world but there is a stark difference between this concept and the concept of sustainability. is anything concerning technology actually sustainable? this is a different concept than "can we make enough money to buy new technology next year". I'm sure there are many different opinions on this and I like to hear them.

wikipedia has this to say:

Sustainability is a systemic concept, relating to the continuity of economic, social, institutional and environmental aspects of human society, as well as the non-human environment. It is intended to be a means of configuring civilization and human activity so that society, its members and its economies are able to meet their needs and express their greatest potential in the present, while preserving biodiversity and natural ecosystems, and planning and acting for the ability to maintain these ideals in a very long term. Sustainability affects every level of organization, from the local neighbourhood to the entire planet.