Quotes About Sustainability

If you're in any field, you should own a farm because one day you will be grateful that you are able to grow your own agricultural produce.

For people who currently have to burn fossil fuels to produce meager, polluting light, LED lighting is a game changer.

Since 1850, burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas has increased 100 times to produce energy as the world has industrialized to serve the world's more than 6 billion and growing population.

We obviously want to produce things that people want. We are going to continue to do that in an environmentally responsible way, while still being aware of the physical, scientific, and practical issues that we have to deal with.

We have to understand that we want to pay the farmers the real price for the food that they produce. It won't ever be cheap to buy real food. But it can be affordable. It's really something that we need to understand. It's the kind of work that it takes to grow food. We don't understand that piece of it.

We can produce more per acre on a fifth of the fuel as the industrial food system.

If women had equal access to fertilizer and modern farm machinery, developing countries would produce between 2.5-percent and 4-percent more food.

I've had people say to me, 'You'll never sell handbags. You don't work with leather, and leather is luxury.' To me, it's the complete opposite: leather is everywhere - it's so cheap a material; it's so mass produced. Over 50 million animals a year are killed just for fashion. For me, it doesn't have a luxury element to it.

I've always had a strong interest in how food is produced and in knowing where it comes from.

Some fast fashion companies do amazing environmentally friendly capsule collections, but wouldn't it be great if one of these companies just turned around and said everything they produced was?

I think that if everyone knew how meat and dairy was being produced, they wouldn't eat it.

Israel is a producer of growth.

I want to give producers more financial security.

People do care where their food, or other goods, comes from, not merely if the price is right. And that means no business can afford to ignore the impacts their buying practices have on producers and on the perceptions and choices of consumers.

With global markets ever expanding, we need to make sure that our American farmers, ranchers, foresters, and producers are well positioned to continue to lead the world.

The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?

It may sound crazy, but maybe there's an economic way of producing a leather-like product in the laboratory.

I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods, most of which people don't need. I'm anti-consumerism; I own four pairs of black Levis and that's it.

As we get better at things, we need less people to produce the things we really need, but what do we do with the rest of the people? They have to be doing something, too, to buy from those few which are doing the really basic stuff, and so that's why we need to be continually producing new stuff.

The goal of any farmer, after producing enough to feed his own family, has always been to find the best place to sell the year's crop.

It's great having a good academy, but if you can't pay the players you're producing, what's the point of it?

Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that's the game we're playing today.

I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their product at the price which the markets gave them - which was much higher than what the trader was giving them.

To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.