Quotes About Sustainability

For cyclone-proof energy infrastructure, we would definitely explore all possibilities, including international support.

If you're eating grassland meat, your carbon footprint is light and possibly even negative.

I think a lot of the big companies need to be more conscious about the way they make their products. Fewer ingredients that are labelled really clearly, so you know exactly what's going on inside the pot.

We need to ban all air-freighted food. Carrots from Holland. Potatoes from Egypt. It's got to stop.

For me, being green means cleaning up the water. Water is the key. Start with water. You can't ignore the fact that that nearly 80% of US waterways are potentially poisoned - benzene, solvents, heavy metals, pharmaceuticals.

Our cattle, poultry and fish should not be exposed to antibiotics or hormones that will be harmful to their human consumers.

Could you physically lose 10 pounds in 2 weeks? Maybe. But there's no way you could do that in a healthy way or that you could maintain it.

You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business.

The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line.

After 'An Inconvenient Truth' came out, a lot of people came to me with their causes, and there are a lot - water, poverty, and so many, many more.

It is not possible to have a strong, functioning business in a world of increasing inequality, poverty, and climate change.

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.

I fight for the environment because we only have one planet, but I see how the environment affects poverty and how the environment affects women around the world.

There are still hundreds of millions, billions of people living in abject poverty around the world. They need electricity. They need electricity they can count on, that they can afford. They need fuel to cook their food on that's not animal dung.

Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history.

Building power plants would do more to lift people out of poverty than the Green Climate Fund ever will.

Slow business is an interesting area because it's taking into consideration the reality that we have to make a living.

Business has a way of talking about how to create value, which is in some way isn't bad... We just need to start thinking about if the value we want to create is consistent with all social and environmental well being.

The Left government has been consistent in its approach to a development process that takes environment into consideration.

In America, we are engaged in constant battle with food.

Let's learn to consume the least amount of energy possible.

Our vision is to have the Seoul citizens produce and efficiently consume energy.

America has been living on the back of the whole world! If you take how much energy we consume, like, 20 percent of the world's energy is consumed in this country. Where do you think it comes from, and what are the sacrifices of those countries?

What I'm always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.