Quotes About Environment

I like to take out the recycling because I actually feel like I'm doing something.

We don't need more recycling, we need a completely different system of closed-loop manufacturing, and no matter how many cans I crush, my personal actions at the consumer level are of very little importance in getting us there.

If recycling is the future, then we must focus our efforts on mitigating negative impacts to our community while protecting our environment.

My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling.

It's like recycling: selling old clothes to help make new ones.

My company in the U.S., Pratt Industries U.S.A., has grown from scratch to become a billion-dollar business based on recycling, as well as the largest Australian-owned employer of U.S. citizens.

I'm adamant about recycling in my house, and I'm always making sure to turn off the lights.

The kids are always so passionate. I feel like they are our protectors. They care so much about recycling and climate change.

For me, green is more about cycling than recycling.

There's this black and green hair style I did one time. And it was literally inspired by my neighbor taking out their green recycling bins in a black outfit. I just loved the color combination, and I was like, Oh, I want black and green hair now.

Consuming less is the fastest way to eco-fashion redemption - particularly if your preference is for leather, not hemp.

As with most animal eggs, the early events of amphibian development are largely independent of the environment, and the processes leading to cell differentiation must involve a redistribution and interaction of constituents already present in the fertilized egg.

We need to boost our intake of healthy plant foods and reduce our dependence on animal-based foods.

The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.

It's not enough for one country or even a few countries to reduce emissions when other countries continue to fill the atmosphere with carbon pollution as they see fit.

We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere.

One of my top priorities in Congress is to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels.

Rhode Island works hard to reduce air pollution in our communities. We passed laws to prohibit cars and buses from idling their engines and to retrofit school buses with diesel pollution controls. But there is only so much a single state can do, particularly against out-of-state pollution.

If your DNA profile puts you at a higher risk of developing obesity, that doesn't mean it's your fate. You can take control of the environmental side of the equation and reduce your overall lifetime risk by a lot.

The Keystone Pipeline is one common-sense step in the right direction to help put more people back to work, reduce prices at the pump, and position our nation for greater energy security now and in the future.

We are already perilously close to killing off the top of the oceanic food chain - with catastrophic consequences that we can't begin to imagine. Let us not, in the heat of anger, reduce the already devastated population of great white sharks by one more member.

We have shared responsibility for global climate; we have to reduce climate change below 2 degrees Celsius.

There are many different ways we can choose to reduce our carbon impacts.

I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.