#sustainability

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

To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a husbandry also of the land, of the soil, of the domestic plants and animals - obviously because of the importance of these things to the household. And there have been times, one of which is now, when some people have tried to practice a proper human husbandry of the nondomestic creatures in recognition of the dependence of our households and domestic life upon the wild world. Husbandry is the name of all practices that sustain life by connecting us conservingly to our places and our world; it is the art of keeping tied all the strands in the living network that sustains us. And so it appears that most and perhaps all of industrial agriculture's manifest failures are the result of an attempt to make the land produce without husbandry. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#farming #husbandry #land #sustainability #art

We have to have a way of dealing with this that engenders confidence, trust, gives us every chance of getting the right outcome and boosts both sustainability and economic return at the same time. ↗

— John Anderson

#both #chance #confidence #dealing #economic

Learning about issues such as sustainability and locavorism are things that you need to have as part of you as a chef because it will make you cook more delicious food. ↗

— Rene Redzepi

#because #chef #cook #delicious #delicious food

The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#future #green #renewable #renewable energy #sustainability

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#defy #first #forces #least #natural

We need – more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic disposal systems, or ecological programmes – to comprehend the nature of citizenship, to make serious imaginative assessment of that special relationship between the self and the city; its unique plasticity, its privacy and freedom. ↗

— Jonathan Raban

#citizenship #inspirational #sustainability #architecture

If left unexecuted, even the greatest competitive strategies are not worth the paper on which they were written. ↗

— Eric Lowitt

#sustainability #business

If you can't reuse or repair an item, do you ever really own it? Do you ever really own it? Do you ever develop the sense of pride and proprietorship that comes from maintaining an object in fine working order? We invest something of ourselves in our material world, which in turn reflects who we are. In the era of disposability that plastic has helped us foster, we have increasingly invested ourselves in objects that have no real meaning in our lives. We think of disposable lighters as conveniences -- which they indisputably are; ask any smoker or backyard-barbecue chef -- and yet we don't think much about the tradeoffs that that convenience entails. ↗

— Susan Freinkel

#environment #plastic #sustainability #love