Dear All!
As I told you earlier, I am pesently reading the following book:
Ray, Paul H. and Anderson, Sherry Ruth (2000). The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World. New York, NY: Three Rivers Press.
I just read a paragraph, on page 164, that, I think, describes well our quest for a sustainable world, be it with regard to sustainability for the ecological or social realm.
Most warmly!
Evelin

Page 164:
Like Bill McDonough, most Ecologists want a completely new kind of economy based on something other than industrialism. They want technologies that are good enough for humanity’s survival: “appropriate technology,” or small-scale, local technology that does not use much energy or materials, or that doesn’t pollute and that recycles everything. Developing such technology is not about just challenging the location of a nuclear power plant, freeway, or chemical plant, or getting better regulation and pollution controls. It is about creating a benign industrial base, using technology in new ways. Many Ecologists would love to find new technologies that would put the big energy companies, big auto companies, and big resource companies (timber, agribusiness, mining, chemicals) out of business altogether. They’re on a search for alternatives to practically every technology and practically every kind of business that will not, to use Bill McDonough’s phrase, “create intergenerational remote tyrannies for our children’s children’s children.”

Ray, Paul H. and Anderson, Sherry Ruth (2000). The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World. New York, NY: Three Rivers Press.