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The fourteen (14) Tenets of the NSI -- Statement of Values for Balance Growth Development Strategy (BDGS) through Strategic Principles for Sustainable Livelihoods and Improvement of the Quality of Life

• Balance Growth and Continuous Prosperity are driven by the Principle of Equilibrium, Co-Existence of Nature and the Environment
• Living Your Legacy through the Art of Giving Back
• Systematic and Rational Use of Resources to Sustain Future Generations
• Development  and Innovation of New Technologies Guided by Ethical, Moral and Safe Guarding Principles
• Balancing of the Development Process and Production of Waste
• Healthy Humankind in Mind, Body and Spirit
• Profit is Good and Driven by Sound Cashflow Maximization
• Harmonization of Private and Public Sectors and Interest Groups for Sustainability of the Environment
• Energy is the Basis of Existence
• Inclusion and Diversity in Human Capital
• Multidisciplinary/Holistic Approach in Planning Communities
• Modernization of Life and Business Processes
• Openness of the Development Process through the Market Exchange Process
• Empowerment and Enlightenment through Individual Choice with Responsibility

• Balance Growth and Continuous Prosperity are driven by the Principle of Equilibrium, Co-Existence of Nature and the Environment: Humankind through its spiritual, cultural, heritage, social, economic, political, organizational and institutional frameworks must co-exist with nature and the environment. The existence and transversal utility of successive generations and the perpetuation of all species are based on the fact that neither must be allowed to supplant each other, but must co-exist in a balance.

• Living Your Legacy through the Art of Giving Back: Poverty, lack, persistent wants start with a particular mind-set.  You can train and provide technical assistance to build capacity, however, without providing opportunities to stimulate a changing of the mind-set combined with the acquisition of basic assets those conditions will persist.  Those conditions can be eradicated through education, maintaining a healthy mind and body, and enterprise and job creation.  We all must participate in making those things happen.

• Systematic and Rational Use of Resources to Sustain Future Generations:  Resources must be used in a systematic and rational manner to allow for renewal where possible and caused-exhaustion where it cannot be avoided but not at the expense of future generations. 

• Development and Innovation of New Technologies Guided by Ethical, Moral and Safe Guarding Principles:  New technologies given their long-term effects of challenging and positive externalities that cannot be readily assessed in total must be explored given consideration to ethical, moral and safe guarding principles.
• Balancing the Development Process and Production of Waste: Waste natural or people-made must be considered in the development process with a view of recycling what can be recycled and/or minimizing that which may be harmful to people, water, soil, animals and the general environment.

• Healthy Humankind in Mind, Body and Spirit: Healthy humankind in mind, body and spirit is one of the primary tenets of our earthly existence.

• Profit is Good and Driven by Sound Cashflow Maximization: Profit is good and is driven by cash flow maximization; however resources must be allocated and used taken into consideration market and non-market values.

• Harmonization of Private and Public Sectors and Interest Groups for Sustainability of the Environment: The private sector, conservationists and governments must work together if the goals of conservation are to be realized given the ever increasing private ownership of land, water, forest resources and the development of private parks globally.

• Energy is the Basis of Existence: Energy is the basis of existence, non-renewable and renewable forms must be utilized. When developed within the context of issues related to water, soil, air, waste and sanitation, a rational mix with proper planning can ensure the sustainability of all species and the environment.

• Inclusion and Diversity in Human Capital: Sustainable communities must build their human capital by attracting outside resources that can be used to foster balanced growth and development.

• Multidisciplinary Holistic Approach in Planning Communities: A multidiscipline/holistic approach in planning communities' results in outcomes that are more sustainable than those produced under uni-directional planning.

• Modernization of Life and Business Processes: The ultimate goal is to improve the quality of life through the modernization of life and business processes.

• Commercialization a viable vehicles of Sustainability: Commercialization is one of the viable vehicles of sustainability

• Openness of the Development Process through the Market Exchange Process:  Sustainable Community cannot survive as a “Closed-System" and so it must seek to participate in the market-exchange process, i.e., the trading of resources and output.

• Empowerment and Enlightenment is about Individual Choice with Responsibility: Ensuring that the choices and decisions made will result in the improvement of that individual and the community.