Friday Quote

We’ve been talking a lot about local sustainability lately, but we haven’t been good listeners, and as anyone in a relationship will tell you, that’s the most important part. So last week we asked you: What is sustainability to you? and Why do you care about sustainability? in hopes of compiling the answers for a big Friday Quote…. As it turns out, most of you didn’t jump at the opportunity to be famous, thus this Friday’s quote parade is a little weak.  But that’s not to say that the two responses we got weren’t awesome.

“I would just add that this could be preceded by one word - Responsibility!”
- Zach_Hunt

“Sustainability, for me, is knowing the face behind a product. If a I know the person who made the thing I am buying, it becomes less of a commodity that can be thoughtlessly used or traded and more of a carefully crafted gift. Knowing the person who creates the goods I buy (or trade) instills a sense of belonging, a sense of being part of something bigger than just me, something that feeds itself through the actions of all those who participate.”
- Jessica Tibbetts