Foragers City Grocer, which makes its debut on Friday in Chelsea, is a high-quality market, with much of the produce locally sourced and organic (though there will also be Hatch green chiles from New Mexico in season), as well as a fish counter that follows the sustainability guidelines of the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Lang, Armstrong, and Liu address the role of the consumer in: "Creativity and sustainable apparel retail models: Does consumers' tendency for creative choice counter-conformity matter in sustainability?" As part of their research, the authors present several potential product-service retail models as a means for promoting sustainable apparel practices among consumers.
As the population grows "greener" than any travel brochure can show, surmounts geographic and social issues and moves sustainability from counter-culture to grassroots movement to mainstream effort, it will be a place to watch.
Such peace will have no effect on what really matters -- Iran's nuclearization, Turkey's Islamist counter-revolution, Egypt's economic sustainability, a functional Syrian state, the rise of Islamist regimes and the continued marginalization of the pluralist supporters of open society in the Arab world.
Urban greenways are proven strategies to counter ecological fragmentation and improve urban sustainability.
The main argument of the paper is the need for an international standard for sustainability assessment additional to national definitions to counter weaknesses in the existing system of sustainability approval by designated national authorities in host countries.
In Grant's words, "Elected officials may not take necessary steps to ensure long-term debt sustainability and may take actions counter to the interests of bondholders".
But Werbach counters that when the environmental movement defines sustainability myopically (by focusing on ecology to the exclusion of social, cultural and economic health) and relies on scare tactics to change behavior, it accomplishes little more than choir preaching.
Though many sustainable food advocates rightfully argue that we "vote" three times a day by the kinds of food we choose to purchase and eat, Rogers' book proves that achieving true environmental sustainability goes far beyond the checkout counter.
His principal achievement in this role was the creation of an organisation of Saharan regions that would help ensure sustainability for the French Union and counter Moroccan territorial claims in the Sahara.
