The one rule of sustainability
Love the earth and your neighbor as yourself. Submissions from the post “Challenge: The one rule of sustainability” and associated LinkedIn discussions.
- All is connected – peoplecare, earthcare, and fairshare.
- Give back what you take.
- Do more with less.
- Follow your passion
- Egalitarianism not egotism.
- Consume with moderation, reuse wisely, simplify and respect your environment – because it is not only yours afterall!
- feel and do as one
- Tread lightly on the environment.
- Leave more than you take.
- No taking without taking care.
- The middle path.
- Increase production through resource reduction.
- Leave the smallest possible footprint
- Take less, leave more.
- Everything in moderation
- Earth’s Renewable Energies – Resources Renaissance.
- Heavens Energy – Earths Resources equivalent.
- Heaven down – ground up Renewal.
- Green-Tech co-joined with Clean -Tech unhurt.
- Energy split between Habitation – Nature.
- Energy link between Habitation – Nature.
- Habitation energy equals Nature’s gift.
- Energy Delivery Man’s responsibility.
- Cradle to Cradle
- Enough for now!
- People, Planet, Profits
- Lessen impact on future generations
- Sustainability = Longevity
- Leave areas better than you find them
- Use only your fair share.
- from Linear to Circular
- enjoy tomorow what today has
- Fair World to next generations
- Consciousness awakening for fairness building.
- Use Responsibly. Nurture Creatively.
- Thinking beyond today and the short term and acting for tomorrow and the long run.
- Energy in equals energy out
- Good for profits, people, planet.
- Good economics greens the planet!
- Understand our true needs
- Less is more.
- Balancing people, profits and planet
- Beneficially lessening our overall footprint
- Help the environment and feel good.
- Stay alive and healthy is better than wealthy!
- True passion for Mother Earth
- Live within the Planet’s limits
- Universal interdependence and respect
- people-planet-profit
- Nothing is created or destroyed, only transformed
- Leaving the earth in better shape !
- Tread lightly on the environment.
- Live Conscientiously – Help Earth Endure.
- Do no harm
- Have intrinsic motivation to do no harm.
- using less, best practices.
- Common Sense! Waste not want not!
- simplicity
- Using less than I’m creating
- maximize health, minimize negative impact.
- Think Before Wasting
- In every action we should think LONG TERM CONSEQUENCES
- Consumption rate < earth replacement rate
- when you take a decision, think of the consequences for the next 7 generations.
- Love Nature, act responsibly.
- Be selfish, not self-centered.
- Cultivate health and prosperity without compromising future health and prosperity.
- Responsibility with the present.
- Eco-Balance-Humanity in Harmony with Nature.
- The inescapable mutuality of the web of life!
- Intersection of economic, social & environmental interests.
- Can it go on forever?
- Waste no energy.
- Energy: learn it, live it.
- Return it as we received it ….or better!
- Use only what you need
- Everything is connected.
- Waste = Food.
- Integrate sustainability into everyday life.
- Cost less, mean more.
- Responsible, returnable, renewable resource utilization.
- waste not, want not!
- Continually improving the world living conditions.
- Environmental integration.
- Continuously improving lives around you.
- Leave No Trace.
- Leave more for future generations
- Live and work with zero net impact on the planet.
- Human expiring day on infinity
- Striving to balance environmental, societal and economic interests.
- The balance of emotion, spiritual and Quotient with the Universe, Resources and Human Desire”.
- Consumption adhering to carrying capacity.
- Finding utility without changing nature.
- We create our grandchildrens’ world.
- Waste less.
- Just Stewardship over resources & activities.
- Think what you don’t need.
Wordle of all the submissions:
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Entries submitted after the original publication of this page:
Update 10/23/09
- Give nature a chance.
- Don’t borrow from our children.
- No system is a closed system.
Update 10/29/09
- Simple Action, New Earth.
- For everyone’s need, nobody’s greed.
- Past actions do not Guarantee a suitable Future.
- Everything comes back to CO2.
- Reduce entropy.
- Start with the end in mind.
Updated Wordle:
Update 11/26/09
- Thriving within the planet’s means.
- Reduce your emissions.
- Physics beats economics every time.
- Don’t s**t where you live.
- Imagine there’s no Heaven.
- Waste not, want not!
- There are NO simple rules!
Update 12/3/09
- Two entirely different species must evolve together to better survive, this is co-evolution.
Update 2/17/10
- No profitability, no sustainability.
- Do your work.
- Balance People, Planet & Profit.
- will it live?
- The Second Law of Thermodynamics
- Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.
- economic wealth, social impact & nature conservation
- always plan for tomorrow and the children of tomorrow
- Holistic enhancement of human meta-systems
- No harm today or tomorrow
- Harmony between social, environmental and economical interests.
- What comes around, goes around
Update 2/22/10
- Does the exchange balance?
- The truth, the constant, the beautiful
- The Harmony of the Commons
- providing for tomorrow, today
- todays’ needs without futures’ expense
- Compassionate, beautiful, just equals sustainable.
- You can’t beat entropy.
- Cooperation and cohabitation forever.
- For my children’s children.
- consumption = or < regeneration
- Enough. For all. Forever.
- Human enterprise balanced with nature
- Climate Change is real!
Update 2/26/10
- Love the earth and your neighbor as yourself.
- Everything begins with people. Include all.
- Flourish forever.
Update 3/2/10
- There is no single rule for sustainability
- Observe closely. Observe the systems closely and observe how they function together and continue to observe closely, and then, observe.
- Borrow -use – return as opposed Take – make -waste
- …vision, design, act, reflect, assess…
- Take Action Now!
- Leave a something for a somebody else!
- Live off the interest, not the balance.
- Find balance in sustaining people, planet & prosperity.
- Moderation
- Understand all the consequences of your actions.
- Respect for the next generations!
- Owning the consequences of your actions.
- Future. Abundance.
- Environmental conservation working in tandem with productivity can equal a profitable and sustainable life.
- Forms of progress that meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs
