I found interesting and therefore share with you some of the definitions of sustainable wealth shared by participants at the event.
Perhaps you wish to add below - your - definition of sustainable wealth and why it is important that we focus on balancing both ecology and economy?
DorothyMarcic
“We are capable of shutting off the sun and the stars because they do not pay a dividend.” John Maynard Keynes
Yahaya Mandila
Addressing social and environmental challenges through customers and brands in a way that has more impact than politicians or environmentalists ever could
Why does it matter?
People do not trust business. They increasingly see companies as irresponsible, greedy and inhuman. Climate change and economic downturn have accelerated new expectations. Businesses need to reengage people, to understand their new priorities, rethink their role and propositions, work in new ways, and enable people to do more themselves.
Luigi Matrone
Because we are hosted on a planet that is giving us all that makes possible our lives and we can’t forget using its resources without paying back to keep this prosperity for generations to come.
Margherita Pagani
Euclid used to say that infinite lines can pass through a single point. I like to think about each human being as a single point, and I realize we so often are not even aware of the infinite chances we have to decide for our existence, to make the best of it, to have an impact on what we care about. I believe that those who already see this chance should unite, should talk, should react and create new sustainable ways to handle and change the contemporary economical and not-economical dynamics.
Wealth to me is about existence, is stopping for a few seconds in the middle of whatever surrounds us and feeling like there’s meaning, feeling like us and others are creating and benefiting of very true value.
Roxann Stafford
humanity’s prosperity is linked to expanding our definition of wealth to include a respect for the environment and empathy for others. All of these come together and are the source of true innovation.
Rahmati
Money/wealth is a tool which helps to create opportunities for the individual(s) who have it to do good in the community, whether it’s local or global.
Arthur Dahl
Our future depends on learning to create wealth in sustainable ways. While material wealth needs to be moderate and equitably distributed, social, cultural, scientific and spiritual wealth can continue to grow in an ever-advancing civilization.
Wilfried Claus
serving society is the most inspiring and never ending source for economical activities; creating value for humanity.
Dan Moller
Sustainable wealth for mankind will eradicate wars from earth and will allow people to make a shift in their priorities from taking to giving.
Personal emotional wealth is when you experience a wide range of emotions: Unconditional Love, Passion, Service to mankind, Freedom, Joy, etc.
Personal financial wealth is when you may decide to work only for fun and no more because I have to.
Andreas Vatsellas
Sustainable wealth for me is that kind of wealth that is respecting the environment and people. People’s needs in the West are in general far less than what is provided materially. Sustainable wealth is a wealth that is distributed justly among the populations of the world. Wealth becomes sustainable when it is apart from material also spitirual.
Monique Blokzyl
The gap between lifestyles of people on this planet is still huge, too many people are forced to live under circumstances they would rather like to change - it is up to each one of us to help ourselves and each other to step beyond current boundaries and to create the life we love to live, with respect for people and for nature
My definition of wealth is getting up every morning, being healthy and surrounded by people I respect and love, being able to serve others to live the life of their dreams - so, I am wealthy already, and still, I do not mind to earn more money to be able to empower even more people around the globe
Michael Richards
There is no alternative - what we have at present is completely unsustainable.
Guillaume Giraud
To fight extreme poverty, avoid destroying the planet (for us and the generations to come).
For me, wealth is having enough money to meet the basic needs of my family (wife, children and me) in terms of housing, food, education and travels.
Marc Rivers
True wealth is acquired only through means which advance human civilization in order to fulfill our potential as a divinely created species and to create a society where we learn to live in moderation and reach spiritual maturity.
Pierre Biot
We are all on this planet for a limited time. As a father, I want to leave this world at least as good as I found it, for my children. Besides, Autism is partly created by environmental issues: Air, water, food, ...toxics.
We can’t continue to forget about the meaning of this life as the consequences are getting back to us, right now.
Patrick Honan
We will attain True Wealth when we uphold the dignity of the human station and assist all of our human family to remove the barriers to their personal fruition, in a system that is sustainable and kind to all life on our common home, planet earth.
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” - Rumi
Pieter Ruiter
Wealth = fulfillment and service to others. Nothing to do with money.
paul hughes
wealth = meaningful life
why= because this is the only way to a meanginful existence
Farid Saffar
Wealth is a balanced distribution of wealth amongst all humans in the world, that allows all to live a respectful, fulfilling and happy life together
Nishat Ruiter
Wealth is an abundance of resources that enables a person to first survive, then live, then prosper based on their vision. From my point of view, we should strive that more and more members of humanity can prosper and justly either limit or increase the opportunities to manage and tap into these resources.
Graham Boyd
Wealth is everything that makes it possible to live, enjoyable to live, and wothwhile.
Nabil Elias
Wealth is future benefit that sustains future life. Sustainable wealth means that consumption or or the using up of benefits must equal additional investments that increase wealth,
so wealth is maintained and sustained. When the spiritual dimension of wealth is interjected in the economic equation, physical wealth expands on two counts: a) there would be a lowered desire to consume, and b) the spirit of service would inevitably lead to increased wealth. Balancing ecological
and economic consideration is an acceptable short-term goal of co-creating sustainable wealth, but in fact ecological
restoration must be the long-term goal. This would be possible only when unsuspected sources of clean energy are tapped and scientific research in ecological restoration is pursued. This is one way of looking at co-creating wealth that can help humanity pay back its ecological deficit.
Stéphanie Barrial
Wealth is often considered as economic wealth but it is more than money. Wealth should be a positive balance between what we have, again social, environmental and economic and I would also say health. Now, it is important to work together for the same objective, co-create is a way to share experience and to build a sustainable wealth.
Arash Aazami
Wealth is sustainable happiness
Yadira Tipan Villarreal
Wealth is the balance of good health, recreation, relaxation and economic in the way to create stability in all societies. As a result people will cooperate with each other and the economic wealth will be distributed equally all around the world.
Victoria Thoresen
Wealth is the condition of growth and change which allows everyone the opportunity to fulfill their potential, to contribute to peace and unity, and to care wisely for themselves, others and Nature.
Dan Enslow
Wealth processes which are not sustainable will lead to great social and economic suffering in the long term. Wealth has both a spiritual and a material component. Baha’u’llah states that the “Essence of Wealth” is love for Me, and flowing on from that love for humanity. Without such love efforts to acquire material wealth become harmful both for the individual and friends and family? Baha’u’llah also states that wealth
is needed for the mature person to accomplish important things and that this should be achieved through crafts and professions.
Caroline Rennie
In my mind this is about creating value without destroying value. The systems we create need to serve all individuals and the system itself. Today our systems are increasingly feeding only the super-wealthy, and everything we understand about the human psyche is that we are creating a class of super selfish, super greedy people who take at the expense of individuals, society and our ecological systems. This does not correspond to my desire for fairness, nor to that inbuilt desire for fairness that mammals seem to share (until they become super-wealthy!). The depletion of social and environmental capital weaken our social systems. The risk is that if we do
not create the conditions for more resilient systems, we might again go into “dark ages”. This is unnecessary and it seems to me that as intelligent humans with the capacity for foresight, we can do something about it!
Laurent Samandari
Today the world is interconnected and different parameters are having an impact on our lives, our profession and on the worldwide economy. But for most of us the question that arise is how we can as an individual and as part of the global economy create sustainable wealth, balancing economic and ecological priorities. For me the question is closely depending on how we start and manage sustainable economy based
on strong and longterm industry. Reduce financial crises by eradicate inappropriate speculation and put ecological matters as priorities at a worldwide level.
Marc Avanzo
There are many different wealths: for me whealth is a capital, something you have in excess thanks to the past, and that enables you not to fear for the future, not to be in a survival or needy mode regarding this dimension! to me Wealth is therefore directly linked to fundamental needs: money is addressing the need for survival, but love, care (EQ) and help/ collaboration is addressing the need for belonging, while freedom, acceptation respect and variety is the wealth addressing. the need for self esteem, and finally wealth of possibilities is fulfilling the need for self realisation.
If the whealth or capital is not sustainable, then we become unbalanced and needy about the unfulfilled needs, geapartizing the stability of the whole, hence the reason why we should co create wealth.
Jane O’Hara
It’s just so obvious that current attitudes of wealth based on exploitation of those in a weaker position (markets, countries, peoples ...) cannot continue. We need to work towards ecological and economic solutions based on spiritual wisdom.