Humankind's greatest priority is to reintegrate with the natural world.

Climate change is not an environmental issue, but much more to do with security and economics

As more and more people wake up to the fact that further growth does not necessarily bring improvements in quality of life (and often exactly the opposite), sustainability is going to become one of the key characteristics with which places want to be associated.

The World Health Organization recently published some data showing that each overweight person causes and additional one tonne of CO2 to be emitted every year. With one billion people overweight around the world-of whom at least 300 million are obese-that's an additional one billion tonnes.

We need to move away from crass, consumption-driven materialism by de-materialising status

...the core values that underpin sustainable development - interdependence, empathy, equity, personal responsibility and intergenerational justice - are the only foundation upon which any viable vision of a better world can possibly be constructed

...deficit consumption is, in effect, drawing down on the capital entitlements of future generations