Seven generation sustainability

Seven generation sustainability

"Seven generations" sustainability is an ecological concept that admonishes the current generation of humans to be working for the benefit of the seventh generation into the future. [Hollender, Jeffrey [http://www.fastcompany.com/social/2008/profiles/seventh-generation.html Profits with Purpose: Seventh Generation] ]

"In every deliberation we must consider the impact on the seventh generation...even if it requires having skin as thick as the bark of a pine."

- Great Law of the Iroquois

References

* [http://www.sevengenerationsahead.org/ Seven generations ahead]


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