Two Wise Quotes “You can accomplish almost anything, as long as you don’t care who gets the credit.” Saying used by Walt Taylor, Smithers, B.C. cited by David Susuki, Ottawa Citizen, 1989 October 22 ——————————————————————- “It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you don’t want or need credit for it.” Tobias Lutke when referring […]
Lord William Kelvin, 1883 British engineer and physicist.
When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it. But when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind. Lord William Kelvin, 1883 British engineer and physicist. Kelvin would also have estimated the […]
Breadth of talent needed
[The concept of sustainable development] demands that we move beyond compartmentalization and outmoded patterns to draw the very best of our intellectual and moral resources from every field of endeavour. Gro Harlem Brundtland, 1989, served three terms as Prime Minister of Norway. CaCOR brings together people with a very broad range of academic background and […]
Jim McNeill, pioneer sustainable development
Many of our problems stem from the way that we have traditionally organized our institutions. The world’s economy is totally interlocked with the earth’s ecology, but our institutions are not. … The most urgent task is to make our central economic, trade, and sectoral agencies directly responsible and accountable for ensuring that their policies – […]
Sunny ways, No!
The Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment meeting in Saint John, N.B. on 1994 June 1 made the following statement. “The Council of Ministers reaffirmed its commitment to stabilize greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2000 and to develop sustainable options to achieve further progress in the reduction of emissions by the year […]