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For 60 years Gross Domestic Product, or GDP for short, has been the yardstick by which the world has measured and understood economic and social progress. However, it has failed to capture some of the factors that make a difference in people’s lives and contribute to their happiness, such as security, leisure,income distribution and a clean environment–including the kinds of factors which growth itself needs to be sustainable.
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All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

kofi annan

— Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General, "In larger freedom: towards development, security and human rights for all", 2005 report for the United Nations sixtieth anniversary summit

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The Tour (de France) is essentially a math problem, a 2,000-mile race over three weeks that's sometimes won by a margin of a minute or less. How do you propel yourself through space on a bicycle, sometimes steeply uphill, at a speed sustainable for three weeks? Every second counts.

lance armstrong

— Every Second Counts (2003, p. 157)

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I now say that the world has the technology – either available or well advanced in the research pipeline – to feed on a sustainable basis a population of 10 billion people. The more pertinent question today is whether farmers and ranchers will be permitted to use this new technology? While the affluent nations can certainly afford to adopt ultra low-risk positions, and pay more for food produced by the so-called “organic” methods, the one billion chronically undernourished people of the low income, food-deficit nations cannot.

norman borlaug

— 30th Anniversary Lecture, The Norwegian Nobel Institute, Oslo, September 8, 2000; Quoted in: Ronald Bailey (2002) Global warming and other eco-myths. p. 59

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I believe that the existing power structures in Europe and Northeast Asia are not sustainable through 2020.

john j. mearsheimer

— Chapter 10, Great Power Politics in the Twenty First Century, p. 385

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Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, the use of fossil fuels, electrical appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing - are not sustainable.

maurice strong

— Maurice Strong, opening speech at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit But this quotation is not in the version posted on Mr. Strong's site.

Tags: Current, lifestyles, consumption, patterns, affluent, middle, class, involving, high

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[O]rganizations need to undergo fundamental changes, both in order to adapt to the new business environment and to become ecologically sustainable.

fritjof capra

— p. 86 Ch. 4 Life and Leadership in Organizations

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The Light, The Thunder, The Dunes of Sand, The Sun, The Moon, Man and the land. If we work a little, we might see, if we think and reflect on each rock and tree, there’s no measure to all it’s worth sustainable earth.

dawud wharnsby

— "Sustainable Earth"

Tags: Light, Thunder, Sand, Sun, Moon, Man, land, we, work

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“Respect for human rights requires transparent and accountable institutions and governance as well as the effective participation of all individuals and civil society, who are an essential part of realizing social and people-centred sustainable development.”

alfred de zayas

— India: Urgent call to halt Odisha mega-steel project amid serious human rights concerns [57]

Tags: Respect, human, rights, requires, transparent, accountable, institutions, governance, effective

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“Respect for human rights requires transparent and accountable institutions and governance as well as the effective participation of all individuals and civil society, who are an essential part of realizing social and people-centred sustainable development.”


— India: Urgent call to halt Odisha mega-steel project amid serious human rights concerns [57]

Tags: Respect, human, rights, requires, transparent, accountable, institutions, governance, effective

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What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an exemplary manner in terms of ethics, values and continue what our ancestors left behind.


— Ratan Tata, in Soft Skills For A Flat World p.260

Tags: What, leave, behind, entity, set, companies, operate, exemplary, manner

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Religious Naturalists will be known for their reverence and awe before Nature, their love for Nature and natural forms, their sympathy for all living things, their guilt for enlarging the ecological footprints, their pride in reducing them, their sense of gratitude directed towards the matrix of life, their contempt for those who abstract themselves from natural values, and their solidarity with those who link their self-esteem to sustainable living.


— Loyal Rue - Religion is not about God, Rutgers University Press, 2005, page 367, ISBN 0813535115

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Panaji is to be developed as a city that is environmentally and economically sustainable, a city that is a mixture of heritage and modernity , a city that cares for its citizen , a city that cares for its tourist , a city that maintains it culture , a city that provide high quality infrastructure services and facilities, a well managed clean, green and safe city that provides and better present and bright future to its people.


— City Vision, in 14-1 Vision Panaji

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What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an exemplary manner in terms of ethics, values and continue what our ancestors left behind.


— Ratan Tata, in Soft Skills For A Flat World, p.260

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I think it's absolutely clear that the fiscal path we are on is not sustainable , and for me, the best analogy is these deficits are like a cancer, and over time they will destroy the country from within.


— Erskine Bowles, in How US Can Avert Fiscal Cliff: 'We've Got Some Hope' (12 Jul 2012)

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I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.

wangari maathai

— Interview in TIME (10 October 2004)

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Our philosophical mission of maintaining GNH generates great interest, yet it creates more responsibility to us in Bhutan to ensure that we don’t lose that special and unique perspective for our country. So how does GNH translate to life in Bhutan? GNH comprises four pillars: Conservation of the Environment , Equitable and sustainable Development, Good Governance, and Preservation of Culture .


— GNH, in Believes in Gross National Happiness, Bhutan Foundation.

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