Quotes About Sustainability

When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things.

We have mountain of debt that isn't going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is a good thing ought to get out of the business of helping the government down the road.

As a car lover, I ask myself, 'What am I going to be buying in the future? Will it be a boring, underpowered, dorky car because the government tells me I shouldn't pollute? Or do I come up with a cool-looking, sexy dream car that is also part of the future?'

Imagine what our planet would look like with an increase in temperature of two degrees or four degrees, given that at 0.8 degrees we already have serious problems in the world.

The reality is that no country's actions alone will create the impact required to limit global temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius - we all need to be part of the solution.

Issues relating to global health and sustainability must stay high on the agenda if we are to cope with an ageing and ever-increasing population, with growing pressure on resources, and with rising global temperatures. The risks and dangers need to be assessed and then confronted.

Giving to those in need what they could be gaining from their own initiative may well be the kindest way to destroy people.

Social entrepreneurs are driven to find sustainable solutions to the world's perplexing social problems.

Why do we persist in giving away food when we know it fosters dependency?" "Because it's easier!

Liberation technology creates wealth, and open-source technology creates wealth. In both instances the 'center of gravity' for dramatic change toward resilience and sustainability is the human brain mass of five billion poor--the one billion rich have failed to 'scale.' The human brain is the one unlimited resource we have on Earth.

I will say that again in a different way: the persistent unethical and ignorant emphasis on secrecy and on making decisions for partisan advantage or to pay off campaign contributors and select insiders is not sustainable. We the People have an opportunity to embrace this manifesto of Open-Source Everything and bury 'rule of secrecy.' This is why I am optimistic about the future.

ane hunder pundis will do mair presently to the said work nor ane thousand pundis will do quhen it is fallin downe

At a certain level of wealth, you care more about things like the environment and what's going to happen to later generations than preserving your own money.

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

As Warren Buffett once said, "Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Mainstream politicians will continue to protect existing systems of power, corporate executives will continue to maximize profit without concern, and the majority of people will continue to avoid these questions. It's the job of people with critical sensibilities—those who consistently speak out for justice and sustainability, even when it's difficult—not to back away just because the world has grown more ominous.

It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top.

If only there were a way, he thought, that every living creature could survive without doing injury to any other. The world had been constructed along bloody lines, of that there was no doubt, and it remained a puzzle at least as baffling as the unified field theory he had been seeking so long.

Wealth is a person's ability to survive so many number of days forward—or, if I stopped working today, how long could I survive?

I think I'd rather get a job. Why? Why not? Jobs are for people who need them. You don't need one. You'd be taking it from somebody else who did.

Fill your plate with fresh vegetables, fruits and grains and you might just live forever.

work harder to produce better'—is seriously flawed. It isn't sustainable. It just leads to burnout. Exhaustion.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.' Like I

Rest is the elite producer's secret weapon. Recovery is not a luxury—it's a necessity and a priority that is beyond important for sustaining world-class productivity over not just years, but decades.