Quotes About Sustainability

I think that people need a livable wage.

My view is we need the best environment for businesses to grow. That is the best opportunity to ensure wages can lift, not artificially but sustainably.

Decent wages keep people out of homeless shelters. Decent wages allow families to afford books and, I don't know, school fees and things like that.

It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere.

Everyone should wake up and have a fresh-squeezed orange every day. By having a fresh glass of orange juice with American oranges, you are supporting the local economy, you have all the vitamin C you need in a day, and you support the environment because you don't use any plastic from bottles or bags.

I have many memories of waking up to eat breakfast that my mother carefully prepared for us and her saying, what do y'all want for lunch, and as we're eating lunch, what do y'all want for dinner? It's always about the next meal.

The butcher, baker, and candlestick maker have been around a lot longer than supermarkets and Wal-Mart.

I was always intrigued when I was growing up, and then in engineering school, with the idea of a perpetual machine. I think of the Wal-Mart culture as that.

Most of the energy in North America is just consuming - Wal-Mart, shopping centres, government offices - or personal consumption: houses, cars, flying to Hawaii, gambling in Las Vegas. We could live affluent lifestyles with half as much energy.

Wal-Mart impoverished its own customer base. Google is facing exactly the same issue long-term, although not yet.

Globalised manufacturing and procurement mean that a lot of high-polluting, heavy duty jobs are transferred to China. We will ask major companies, such as Wal-Mart, Microsoft and IBM to put pressure on their Chinese suppliers.

I was raised on farms by people who didn't have Wal-Mart. They had to make their own sleds, harnesses, clothing, etc.

India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.

Ultimately when I gave up the use of motorized vehicles, I walked everywhere, from town to town, across states and two continents. When I stopped talking, I mean literally I stopped speaking. I took a complete vow of silence.

Clear skies and clean air must become the new normal. We must re-design our cities, reclaiming the streets for cycling and walking, allowing people to walk along streets unpolluted by traffic.

My favorite form of transportation is walking. I live in a neighborhood where you can walk to restaurants, banks, and shops.

Coloradans of all walks of life value the environment.

Growing up Marley, we wanted anything we put our hands on to be beneficial to the environment and the community.

I always turn to Wendell Berry for inspiration on food, community, agriculture, and, well, just being a human.

The money I was getting paid isn't going to do anything to help my family grow. It's not going to give us a better life when it's all over.

I'm trying to express nature in big cities.

I have made 'start, grow and stay' a big part of my administration.

I don't have a car - I have a beautiful Pinarello bike.

I bike everywhere.