Interview 7568 – Caption Index: 672
You can also over-consume, so your short-term, if you want to. But at Hilton Head, Charlie Fraser built a very, very modern community down there at Hilton Head. And it’s golf courses and everything else. Read More
You can also over-consume, so your short-term, if you want to. But at Hilton Head, Charlie Fraser built a very, very modern community down there at Hilton Head. And it’s golf courses and everything else. Read More
And he said, yeah, he said, but why does the pig have a wounded leg?… Read More
And the farmer said, well, son, if you had a pig like that, you wouldn’t eat it all at once, would you?… Read More
You probably heard that story?… Read More
Yeah?… Read More
He said, well, son, you may not believe this, but my house caught on fire, that pig came all the way up to the bedroom, grabbed my covers, pulled them out and woke me up and saved my life. Read More
And the salesman said, (laughs) sounds implausible, but why does the pig have a wounded leg?… Read More
He said, now, look, you may not believe that first one, but you gotta believe this. I drove my tractor out in the back 40 and I hit a furrow and a tractor flipped upside down on top of me. And that pig came out and dug a hole under… Read More
But guess what the term is, is sustainable consumption. Now, that’s the way the universe works. It’s also a human term. Your body has to be sustainable and your consumer, but if you don’t use it right, you’re short-term. (chuckles) It even relates to the baseball season when they were… Read More
So I started using that term. You will never get rid of the word conservation, but you got to start thinking about the law of the universe, which is sustainable consumption, and business and industry understand that. So that’s the term I use. Now, with that said, there’s a story… Read More
And he said, sir, I’d like to sell you some insurance, but first of all, why does that pig in your backyard have a wounded leg?… Read More
I started using it with him and you know what?… Read More
He was very comfortable with it, because it disarms business and industry. And I finally started calling, I talk a lot about it now, the way the universe works and the way they use the earth works, everything on this planet is a consumer from that big to an elephant. Read More
What the heck does sustainable development mean?… Read More
Okay?… Read More
But we’ve used words like the balance of nature and ecology and ecosystems, conservation. Some of those mean a lot to the public, some don’t necessarily mean much. So anyway, I said, we gotta come up with something else. So I started thinking about it. I came up with a… Read More
And if I use the word environment, he’s okay with the word of conservation, but you talk about environmentalism to you and he doesn’t like that at all. As most many businesses and industries don’t like the word environment, because it gets restricted. Environmentalism is restricted. So I came up… Read More
Can I tell a little bit of a joke about the difference between conservation and another term that should be used?… Read More
Okay. Well, I was on a freighter, a Russian icebreaker going up to the north pole. And there was an advertising person there, and I recognize the fact that in our day, you know, things haven’t changed a whole lot ’cause some of our communication terms are not strong enough… Read More
So what term can I use that’s more powerful than the word conservation?… Read More