Eco-friendly = Manufacturing x Consciousness²
While “eco-friendly” and “sustainable” are often used interchangeably, they have distinct meanings.
Eco-friendly focuses on minimizing immediate environmental impact, while sustainability encompasses a broader view that considers long-term environmental, social, and economic well-being. Sustainability is about balancing current needs with the needs of Future generations, ensuring resources are available for the long term.
Here’s a more detailed breakdown:
Eco-friendly
Focuses on minimizing immediate environmental harm.
May address specific environmental issues like reducing carbon emissions or single-use plastics.
May not always consider the broader social and economic implications.
Sustainable
Encompasses a broader view, considering environmental, social, and economic aspects.
Focuses on long-term resource management, ensuring that our actions today don’t deplete resources for future generations.
Aims for a balance between these three dimensions.
Eco-friendliness focuses on maintaining the environment, whereas sustainability encompasses the three pillars of the environment, economy, and society.
Eco-friendliness is a part of sustainability, yet many eco-friendly behaviors cannot be described as sustainable.
In easy terms:
Eco-friendly
Being kind to the environment in the short term.
Sustainable
Ensuring a healthy planet and society for the Future.
Manufacturing is not buying low and selling high. It is the process of buying materials fairly and, with the smallest possible addition of cost, transforming those materials into a consumable product and giving it to the consumer. Gambling, speculating, and sharp dealing, tend only to clog this progression.
The three working rules: 1. Get out of the confusion, find simplicity. 2. From discord, find harmony. 3. In the midst of difficulties lies the favorable opportunity.
Every problem has three solutions: my solution, your solution and the right solution.
(Plato)
