If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I just want to be self-sustainable so that I can continue to just do what I like to do and not make a million dollars. Nobody needs a million dollars.
I'm doing my work in an environment that's ultimately about dollars and cents.
I'm for a balanced budget now.
Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge.
The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations.
It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
If we're going to have an unconventional budget, we probably need an unconventional process to get there.
I try to leave a light footprint. I'm involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people about sustainable building and the greening of schools. I try to be aware about the consumption of unnecessary things in a consumptive culture.
You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you're not on the path to a clean energy future.
I will never be able to create a budget from scratch with the amount of time that I have, but my instructions remain the same: Give me a budget that has no new revenue.