Quotes About Sustainability

Invoking Nature always measures the distance we have yet to travel to achieve real progress on environmental issues.

Climate change is not a distant problem. It's involved in all of our lives through the stuff that we use, buy and eat - which is not to say that individuals like you and me are responsible for climate change.

We need to diversify our economy, but I also think we still have a future in coal.

As we move to diversify our economy, we are particularly aware that we need oil to get out of oil.

In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.

It's more expensive for me to make my shoes. I don't use animal-based glues or fish-based glues. So that costs me more. And, you know, like anything in life - mass marketing of anything - mass manufacturing of anything costs less.

Over-working gets less done. We all have experienced this. We can push ourselves to exhaustion, but things get done with less attention, and our bodies eventually break down.

It's true that hydropower exploitation can bring economic development, but not necessarily to the benefit of local people.

So much of today's food is based on the exploitation of animals and the environment. Yes, it's cheap, but at what cost?

I'm not against people buying clothes; I think clothes are wonderful, and I'm very materialistic myself - but there's a way of finding a compromise. I just think we can buy less and pay more, to make sure people aren't being exploited.

It doesn't make sense to have a bitumen export economy.

We've made extraordinary progress on the environment over the decades, and that's something we should celebrate.

Water links us all as human beings. Everyone needs water, and we all have challenges about it, no matter where we live. Yet even in the U.S., people aren't aware of problems facing water.

I don't believe in fad diets.

That's what's important to all of us that work on 'Atlanta,' that people don't see us as a fad.

Environmentalism has failed.

The mandate of financial fair play in Europe is for clubs to live within their means.

You can survive your income falling if it's not dramatic. Your income can decrease for a long time before you start living beyond your means.

Energy conservation is a responsibility that falls on every country and individual.

I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.

Environmental justice, for those of you who may not be familiar with the term, goes something like this: no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.

Like working families all across the state, we must find a way to make government live within its means.

People don't even understand that every bit of our food was once alive. We take another creature, plant, animal, microorganism, tear it apart in our mouths. And incorporate those molecules into our own bodies. We are the Earth in the most profound way.

Food tech has been kind of an area that we have been making a number of investments in. Kind of a big boring industry, but a lot of people eat.