sustainability

I thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them.

I finally understood that I couldn__ avoid working to provide for myself, but that can also be a wonderfulthing, a beautiful thing.

I think all people want freedom, but they've got this idea inserted into their head about money.

My goal is to draw a line with some 'flavor' to it.

They have taken the idea of nonharming, of gentleness toward the earth, to a very radical level. Even the weeds are not enemies.

Why is it that so many people start to value money so much that they trade in most of the hours and years of their life in order to get it?

Time is what we have in this life, and how we use it determines what our life is.

What art should do, I think, is advance the generation into the next era. It should be one step ahead of the ordinary, ahead of what is already known. Art is what pulls on the next age. I__ not saying that my art is that, but that it would be good if it could be.

Often I'll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there's no work to do on it. When I am filled with worries, I do that and I can feel the energy of the mountains and of the trees.

This heated (environmental) debate is fundamentally about numbers. How much energy could each source deliver, at what economic and social cost, and with what risks? But actual numbers are rarely mentioned. In public debates, people just say __uclear is a money pit_ or __e have a huge amount of wave and wind._ The trouble with this sort of language is that it__ not sufficient to know that something is huge: we need to know how the one __uge_ compares with another __uge,_ namely our huge energy consumption. To make this comparison, we need numbers, not adjectives.

Ban short-selling, high speed trading and all other instruments of pure speculation

CEOs should be measured by the value they create into the community, the shareholders and the members of the company.

OURSOCIETY ISCONTROLLED BY LAWYERSAND FINANCIERS"PROBLEMMAKERS WE NEED TO EVOMETO A SOCIETY LEAD BYCREATORS, ENGINEERS, SCIENTISTS PROBLEMSOLVERS. SURELY WE WILLHAVE MORE INGENUITYCOOPERATION ANDPEACE

Of course, chaos can lead to failure and extinction. But so can order. Far more nations, people, and ideas die of atrophy than die from revolution. Both order and chaos are necessary ingredients for long run success - for sustainability.

Make no mistake. The greatest destroyer of ecology. The greatest source of waste, depletion and pollution. The greatest purveyor of violence, war, crime, poverty, animal abuse and inhumanity. The greatest generator of personal and social neurosis, mental disorders, depression, anxiety. Not to mention the greatest source of social paralysis, stopping us from moving into new methodologies for personal health, global sustainability and progress on this planet, is not some corrupt government or legislation.Not some rogue corporation or banking cartel.Not some flaw of human nature and not some secret cabal that controls the world.It is the socioeconomic system itself at its very foundation.

Markets cannot meet the needs of the very poor. The desperately poor are not consumers who will create an immediate profit.

It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products should be illegal. We don't need the option of buying children's toys made with lead paint, or aerosols with chlorofluorocarbons, or medicines with unlabeled side effects. And we don't need the option of buying factory-farmed animals.

Ban privileges. The rules of the game should be the same to all players, regardless of their size, location, or any other criteria