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For all the environmental troubles single-use shopping bags cause, the much greater impacts are in what they contain. reducing the human footprint means addressing fundamentally unsustainable habits of food consumption, such as expecting strawberries in the depths of winter or buying of seafood that are being fished to the brink of extinction.


Susan Freinkel


#sustainability #food

No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.


Ida B. Wells


#america #burning #civilized #confessed #hanging

Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?


Yann Martel


#old-age #rudeness #study-in-character #age

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’m not saying that my art is that, but that it would be good if it could be.


Andy Couturier


#community #environmentalism #green #japan #sustainability

Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the sake of patriotism and the love of God? Perhaps some of us would like to think so, but in fact this destruction is taking place because we have allowed ourselves to believe, and to live, a mated pair of economic lies: that nothing has a value that is not assigned to it by the market; and that the economic life of our communities can safely be handed over to the great corporations. (from 'Compromise, Hell!' published in the November/December 2004 issue of ORION magazine)


Wendell Berry


#economics #lies #sustainability #beauty

Inaction is no longer acceptable.


Eric Lowitt


#inaction #sustainability #business

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps full the dinner pail is valuable.


George Washington Carver


#sustainability #work #food

Sustainability is a new idea to many people, and many find it hard to understand. But all over the world there are people who have entered into the exercise of imagining and bringing into being a sustainable world. They see it as a world to move toward not reluctantly, but joyfully, not with a sense of sacrifice, but a sense of adventure. A sustainable world could be very much better than the one we live in today.


Donella H. Meadows


#growth #sustainability #imagination

We don't think a sustainable society need be stagnant, boring, uniform, or rigid. It need not be, and probably could not be, centrally controlled or authoritarian. It could be a world that has the time, the resources, and the will to correct its mistakes, to innovate, to preserve the fertility of its planetary ecosystems. It could focus on mindfully increasing quality of life rather than on mindlessly expanding material consumption and the physical capital stock.


Donella H. Meadows


#society #sustainability #life

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?


Andy Couturier


#environmentalism #green #japan #sustainability #money






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