sustainability

Another principle that I believe can be justified by scientific evidence so far is that nobody is going to emigrate from this planet not ever....It will be far cheaper, and entail no risk to human life, to explore space with robots. The technology is already well along....the real thrill will be in learning in detail what is out there...It is an especially dangerous delusion if we see emigration into space as a solution to be taken when we have used up this planet....Earth, by the twenty-second century, can be turned, if we so wish, into a permanent paradise for human beings...

We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I__ not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.

The aquatic environment must be safeguarded by men. God created mankind to care for the environment and all the living resources.

Feeling at home anywhere on earth, and a foreigner even in the country where I was born, I consider myself an earthling, a citizen of the world.I love nature dearly and all creatures that contribute to make it what it is. I see the beauty in all expressions of life, and I see how blind so many of us still are. Our planet is remarkably abundant and there's more than enough for us all.It is greed and shortsightedness that create the illusion of scarcity. I have lived through tremendous adventures and survived only because other people risked their lives for me. Realising how interconnected and interdependent we all are, I am neither shy or embarrassed when it is time for me lean on another to ask for help. And when I have the opportunity to help another, I view it as my duty and privilege.

Monoculture is mono for the earth.

Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.

We're reaching the point where the Earth will have to end the burden we've placed on her, if we don't lift the burden ourselves.

I live in one of the best places, bar none, to appreciate the wild natural environment. I also live in one of the most politically difficult places to work on its behalf: Alaska.

A photograph of a disposable diaper floating in the arctic miles away from human habitat fueled my daily determination to save at least one disposable diaper from being used and created. One cloth diaper after another, days accumulated into years and now our next child is using the cloth diapers we bought for our firstborn.

These steel monstrosities screamed night and day, blotted out the starlit skies and Northern Lights with flashing red strobes, slaughtered thousands of bats and entire flocks of birds banished tourism and wildlife, made people sick and drove them from their now-valueless homes.

When we flood our creative problem-solving mind with the endorphins of gratitude, we are open to receiving the spectacular solutions that are needed now to ensure that generations to come will enjoy this beautiful blue ball that we call home.

Alas, our technology has marched ahead of our spiritual and social evolution, making us, frankly, a dangerous people.

What is the point of "labor saving" if by making work effortless we make it poor, and if by doing poor work we weaken our bodies and lose conviviality and health? (Health is Membership, pg. 93)

When we use these words and we talk about plants having a strategy to do this or wanting this or desiring this, we__e being metaphorical obviously. I mean, plants do not have consciousness. But, this is a fault of our own vocabulary. We don__ have a very good vocabulary to describe what others species do to us, because we think we__e the only species that really does anything.

While the word charity connotes a single act of giving, justice speaks to right living, of aligning oneself with the world in a way that sustains rather than exploits the rest of creation.

Monitor, transparently, and enforce the separation of Democracy powers: Legislative; Executive; Judicial

Social entrepreneurship represents the opportunity to redefine the role of government.

Sustainability is best illustrated by those who sell food _ just so they afford something to eat.