“No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some GREAT SERVICE not for itself, but for others… or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.” - Calvin Coolidge

“An empty lantern provides no light. Self-care is the fuel that allows your light to shine brightly.”

For a solution to be truly sustainable and good it must have a positive return to the environment and society. At the heart of any design problem is a question: Are we trying to make something less bad or are we trying to make things better? Its not just about solving for the negative; its about creating a positive.”

Eric Wicks

“Rethinking the future: It is a profound challenge, at the end of an era of cheap oil and materials to rethink and redesign how we produce and consume; to reshape how we live and work, or even to imagine the jobs that will be needed for transition” - Ellen MacArthur

“A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children - John James Audubon

The earth does not belong to us. We belong to the earth - Chief Seattle

“Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.” – Albert Einstein

The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health

“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.” - John Burroughs