“The blending of architecture, solar, wind, biological and electronic technologies with housing, food production, and waste utilization within an ecological and cultural context will be the basis of creating a new ...design science for the post-petroleum era.” TechnologyDesignWindWasteCreatingBasesProductionsArchitectureErasPostsHousingEcologicalPetroleumUtilizationFood Production Author:John Todd
“The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if in no other way, we can see the wild and reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index.” IfsWayUseSeemsGreaterMountainWasteProductionsRecklessExuberance Book:Travels with Charley in Search of America Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America
“This dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass all over the earth.” MenDreamEarthWasteCompetitionProductionsCeasePoolHull House Book:Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes
“Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling squirrel-cage of economic confusion in which we have been madly turning for the last three centuries or so, the cage in which we landed ourselves by acquiescing in a social system based upon Envy and Avarice. A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste.” ThinkingWayHas BeensWholeLastsOrderThreeSocialWorkEconomicCenturyWasteEconomicsProductionsEnvyConfusionConsumptionCagesTrashAvariceSquirrelsSocial Systems Author:Dorothy L. Sayers
“I hope it will not be too long before the technologies that support our population explosion begin to be perceived as no less hazardous to the future of life on this planet than the endless production of radioactive wastes.” LongTechnologySupportPlanetsWastePopulationProductionsEndlessExplosionsPopulation ExplosionRadioactive Waste Author:Daniel Quinn
“Put simply, if we do not redirect our extraction and production systems and change the way we distribute, consume, and dispose of our stuff - what I sometimes call the take-make-waste model - the economy as it is will kill the planet.” IfsWaySometimesStuffEconomyPlanetsWasteModelsProductionsExtraction Author:Annie Leonard
“Uranium mining in northern Canada has left over 120 million tons of radioactive waste. This amount represents enough material to cover the Trans-Canada Highway two meters deep across the country. Present production of uranium waste from Saskatchewan alone occurs at the rate of over 1 million tons annually. Since 1975, hospitalization for cancer, birth defects and circulatory illnesses in that area have increased dramatically - between 123 and 600 percent in that region.” TwoCountryEnoughLeftMillionsMaterialsAmountBirthWastePercentAreasEnvironmentalRateCancerIllnessProductionsCanadaRegionsPollutionDefectsHighwaysTransMeterMiningUraniumBirth DefectsUranium MiningSaskatchewanRadioactive Waste Author:Winona LaDuke
“Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.” IfsNeedsTryingCasesWorryWasteProductionsCopiesWasting TimeCompetitorsBreakthroughToastsPatents Author:Eric Ries
“A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.” OrderHouseCreationWasteBuiltProductionsSandConsumptionTrash Author:Dorothy L. Sayers
“The ideal of a perfectly functioning democracy is one person, one vote; the ideal of a perfectly functioning market is one dollar, one vote.It's a hoary superstition that democratically elected governments invariably function as instruments of the collective will.A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste.” PersonsGovernmentOrderDemocracyWasteCapitalismIdealsVoteFunctionInstrumentsDollarsProductionsCollectivesSuperstitionsConsumptionTrash Author:Dorothy L. Sayers
“If the level and amount of consumption and waste of the western rich countries ever reaches the poor countries, it will mean the end of humanity. The big world corporations are busy doing it...The production, selling, consumption, accumulation, wastes' and advertisement explosions in the western rich countries and the continued population explosion in the poor countries will turn into major catastrophes.” IfsWorldMeanEndsCountryBigsHumanityTurnsPoorLevelsRichEnvironmentAmountWasteMajorsWesternBusyPopulationProductionsSellingCorporationsConsumptionCatastropheExplosionsAccumulationAdvertisementsPoor CountriesRich CountriesPopulation Explosion Author:Robert Muller
“The linear 'Take - Make - Dispose' system, which depletes natural resources and generates waste, is deeply flawed and can be productively replaced by a restorative model in which waste does not exist as such but is only food for the next cycle” DoeNextNaturalBusinessWasteModelsResourcesEconomicsManagementProductionsProductivityCyclesReplacedFlawedRestorationNatural ResourcesLinearDisposableInefficiencySystemic Change Author:Ellen MacArthur
“The only truly dependable production technologies are those that are sustainable over the long term. By that very definition, they must avoid erosion, pollution, environmental degradation, and resource waste. Any rational food-production system will emphasize the well-being of the soil-air-water biosphere, the creatures which inhabit it, and the human beings who depend upon it.” HumansWellsLongTermWaterHuman BeingsTechnologyAirDependsCreaturesWasteResourcesGardenEnvironmentalDefinitionsProductionsRationalWell BeingLong TermSoilGardeningPollutionDegradationErosionDependableBiosphereEnvironmental DegradationFood ProductionSoil Erosion Author:Eliot Coleman