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First, reduce waste and increase efficiency. It's possible to live with the same benefits as the rest of society for one quarter of what the average consumer spends. Many of these expenses are eliminated by only owning what is actually used, and maintaining what is bought.

Jacob Lund Fisker • Early Retirement Extreme: A philosophical and practical guide to financial independence

The pay justice movements, the wage ratio movements, and the central banks’ recommended tax plans, plus political movements everywhere supporting job guarantees and progressive taxation,

Kim Stanley Robinson • The Ministry for the Future: A Novel

We work to see how we can live with the least harm to ourselves and the planet, and also what we can do to make the world a better place.

Joanna van der Hoeven • Pagan Portals - The Awen Alone

Returnity is solving for the increased focus on circular shipping models, consumer attention to sustainability, and brands sensitivity to a differentiated customer experience. We will displace the use of over 1 million cardboard boxes and poly mailer bags in 2019 — and 10 million+ in 2020.

Mike Newman • Big Ideas: “How we can eliminate single use packaging” with Mike Newman, CEO of Returnity…

"Economics without spiritual, human, and ecological values is like sex without love." – E.F. Schumacher

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Instead of paying with our lives, we celebrate and preserve life and align our values and actions according to three principles: the LESS approach to sustainability, the MORE approach to engagement with the natural world, and the MINDFUL approach to consumerism.

Marcelo Gleiser • The Dawn of a Mindful Universe: A Manifesto for Humanity's Future

Material and bio-regional transformation

We are therefore stumbling, unknowingly, into a material revolution. The most forward-looking clothing companies no longer “sell” garments; they assume custodianship, inviting the wearer into a public-trust relationship with fibres that must be stewarded, not discarded.

The same logic scales to buildings, inf... See more