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Sustainability"Products need to be kept, repaired, loaned and shared. Packaging needs to be reused and returned. That is progress. We have to build markets today that have a focus on forever." - Piers Fawkes, PSFK.com "Galileo said something akin to "measure what is measureable, make measurable what is not." We are slowly gaining expertise in measuring our impact in terms of carbon, energy demand, water use, and toxicity production. We are making consequence visible. We will witness the first generation who can truly know the impact of everything they do on the ecological support systems that surround them." - Saul Griffith, Energy Literacy.com "The single most important competitive advantage will be, as a country or company, the ability to outgreen your competition." - Thomas Friedman, Author, Hot, Flat, and Crowded "Health is a precondition for, an outcome of, and an indicator of sustainable development." - Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General World Health Organization "Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business." - Chirstopher Lasch, American Historian "We think that one of the innovations in infrastructure is really taking a systems approach. And that means not thinking about a specific project or specific situation like "water only" or "transport only" or "energy only" but really looking systemically around to know what kinds of infrastructure is needed to support healthy, active, accessible communities or nations." Judith Rodin, President, Rockefeller Foundation |