“When people can see a vision and simultaneously recognize what can be done step by step in a concrete way to achieve it, they will begin to feel encouragement and enthusiasm instead of fright.” PeopleWayFeelsDoneVisionStepsAchieveEncouragementEnvironmentalEnthusiasmSustainabilityConcreteFrightInspirational Environmental Book:To Have Or To Be? Source: To Have Or To Be?
“Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.” WantSocialGrowthJusticeEconomicAchieveDevelopmentExerciseOffersSocial JusticeEnvironmentalGovernanceFrameworkStewardshipEconomic GrowthPathwaysSustainable DevelopmentEnvironmental StewardshipFuture Growth Author:Ban Ki-moon
“We know that to wage a nuclear war today, for example, would be a form of suicide; or that to pollute the air or the oceans in order to achieve some short-term benefit would be to destroy the very basis for our survival.” KnowsWarWould BeTodayFormOrderTermAirAchieveExampleOceanBenefitsSurvivalBasesSuicideEnvironmentalNuclearPollutionShort TermNuclear War Book:Path To Tranquility Source: Path To Tranquility
“We want to encourage investors to target businesses that focus on achieving more than just profits - by placing their money into businesses that also positively contribute to social or environmental benefits in Ontario. Angel investors can help social enterprises grow and succeed, and through our partnership with the Network of Angel Organizations and the Impact Angel Alliance, we are making it easier for social ventures and angel investors to connect, contribute, and make our society a better place to live.” WantHelpingSocialGrowsFocusAchieveEasierSucceedBenefitsAngelOrganizationImpactEnvironmentalProfitEnterpriseOur SocietyTargetInvestorsPartnershipVentureBetter PlacePositivelyAlliancesPlaces To LiveOntario Author:Brad Duguid
“But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.” IfsWorldRememberNatureTechnologyGenerationsAchieveSorrowGratitudeMiracleEnvironmentalPatrioticGlimpseFuture Generation Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“Those people who say that America is finite are some sense right. The environmental movement, for example, has a great wisdom to it: we need to protect, to preserve, to shelter as much as we need to develop. But I think this always has to be juxtaposed against the optimism of old, which is now represented in part by immigrants. I would like to see America achieve a kind of balance between optimism and tragedy, between possibility and skepticism.” PeopleThinkingNeedsKindAmericaAchieveExampleMovementPossibilityBalanceProtectOptimismTragedyEnvironmentalPreservesImmigrantsShelterSkepticismFiniteGreat Wisdom Author:Richard Rodriguez