In our public and in our private lives we should always and everywhere seek through our personal and collective behavior to act (e.g.. tax, spend, regulate, legislate, litigate, advocate and agitate, etc.) so as to:

• substitute the consumption of non-renewable resources with renewable ones;
• reduce the consumption of renewables to at or below their rate of renewal;
• enter nothing into the waste/nutrient stream that cannot be "eaten" safely by another non-threatening organism;
• allocate the fruits of production in a more, rather than less, just and equitable manner;
• measure and monitor environmental conditions affecting the safety, health and survival of all species;
• educate and inform the public about the circumstances it must confront and the "footprint" it generates in the wider environment;
• entitle and empower local communities to manage their own resources sustainably;
• develop, introduce and promote metaphors in public discourse that move beyond juvenile growth paradigms toward a more mature understanding of human homeostasis in a stable, functioning ecosystem;
• cajole, exhort and convince those who do not follow these precepts to mend the error of their ways;

and

• expose, denounce, condemn and seek to punish those who consistently and intentionally violate these precepts of responsible ecocitizenry -- including those who otherwise wish to present themselves as perfectly "respectable" scientists and public leaders...

"...that thy days may be long upon the Earth."