BY PROF. LIWAYWAY MEMIJE-CRUZ

Developing Environmentally Sustainable Societies

Solutions

GuidelinesandStrategies

Leave the world in as good a shape as—or better than—we found it.

Sustain Biodiversity Eliminate poverty Develop eco-economies

Do not degrade or deplete the earth’s natural capital, and live off the natural income it provides

Build sustainable communities

Copy nature

Do not use renewable resources faster than nature can replace them

Take no more than we need

Use sustainable agriculture

Promote renewable energy

Depend more on locally available renewable energy, from the sun, wind, flowing water, and sustainable biomass

Try not to harm life, air, water, soil

Emphasize pollution prevention and waste reduction

Do not change the world’s climate

Do not waste matter and energy resources

Do not overshoot the earth’s carrying capacity

Recycle, reuse, and compost 60-80% of matter resources

Help maintain the earth’s capacity for self-repair

Maintain the human population

“SOMETHING WILL HAVE GONE OUT OF US AS A PEOPLE IF WE EVER LET THE REMAINING WILDERNESS BE DESTROYED; IF WE PERMIT THE LAST VIRGIN FORESTS TO BE TURNED INTO COMIC BOOKS AND PLASTIC CIGARETTE CASES; IF WE DRIVE THE FEW REMAINING MEMBERS OF THE WILD SPECIES INTO ZOOS OR TO EXTINCTION; IF WE POLLUTE THE LAST CLEAR AIR AND DIRTY THE LAST CLEAN STREAMS AND PUSH OUR PAVED ROADS THROUGH THE LAST OF THE SILENCE, SO THAT NEVER AGAIN WILL AMERICANS BE FREE IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY FROM THE NOISE, THE EXHAUSTS, THE STINKS OF HUMAN AND AUTOMOTIVE WASTE.” ~WALLACE STEGNER, LETTER TO DAVID E. PESONEN OF THE WILDLAND RESEARCH CENTER, 3 DECEMBER 1960 (THANKS, BEKAH)

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Thank You!