Quotes About Sustainability

It's not a long-term business model to take advantage of your consumers in ways that are not sustainable.

We only have one earth. Let's take care of it.

We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.

If we look at things scientifically, there is more than enough food and material goods on Earth to take care of all people's needs - if managed correctly.

We survived on natural resources, so we should take care of the earth. When I leave home, I do things like switching off the heat and lights.

It's for us to take care of the air we breathe and the water we drink. And I do believe we have an impact on that, and we do have the ability to change it if we make the decision to.

I think it's important to be kind to the world before it disappears if we don't take care of it.

We simply won't be here if we don't take care of the very things that allow us to exist: our associates, customers, suppliers and the planet. That's not up for debate.

If we want to increase our own happiness, we need to invest in growing the community happiness and also take care of the whole, of Mother Earth.

We all celebrate Ganpati festival with a lot of love and care for the deity, but we also need to take care of the environment.

We've got to take care of the resources we have on this planet, because there's no resupply possible.

In Hawaii we understand why it is important to malama, or take care of, our land, ocean, and air - our way of life depends on it.

You have to ask yourself: how much does any one person or one family need? And when you start thinking about the universe as an organism, it's important that we, as components of that organism, take care of each other and ourselves.

Think of a world where there is no ride-sharing; people are driving themselves to work. You now have 30 people being served by 30 cars. Those 30 cars are only served 4% of the day; 96% of the day, they're stored somewhere. Around 20% to 30% of our land is taken up just storing these hunks of metal that we drive around in for 4% of the day.

I've taken for granted that we have clean air to breathe in cities, relatively speaking, and most people have access to clean water. But we can't take these things for granted.

Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

I really believe in the environmental movement right now - it only takes a little effort to make a big difference.

Taking on corporate greed is an environmental concern.

People don't understand rural America. Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a lack of opportunity in rural America. I believe that's because if you grow up in rural America, you know you can't just keep taking from the land. You've got to give something back.

If you are a chef, you have an incredible responsibility in this world. Don't just open a restaurant to serve food. Include the community, and make sure that you are not taking advantage of what the planet has given us.

There is talk about the need for a second Green Revolution. However, such a revolution is nowhere in sight.

I talked about 12 to 18 months, and that's about reaffirming our foundation for sustained growth: getting the discipline back, getting the basics right, getting the customer focus back... so by the end of next year, I hope most of that's in place.

Since SpaceX's very beginnings, they have talked about recovering and reusing at least the first stages of their rockets.

Labor believes in sustainability. We believe in acting on climate change, not just talking about it.