Quotes About Sustainability

Protein has been intensely over-represented on the plate. Now, the garden should be the main drag for main courses.

In terms of personal choices, let's all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.

We've been programmed to think meat is protein and you need meat. No, we are not cavemen. There are plenty other ways.

If I wanted to eat all the protein I need from food, I would have to eat something like 10 chickens per day. That is impossible.

I'm an advocate for alternative proteins, and I believe we can eat many.

Environmental degradation has one cause above all others: the propensity of human beings to take the benefit and leave the costs to someone else, preferably someone far away in space or time, whose protests can be safely ignored.

The seas need their own Kyoto Protocol.

We got involved with the RepRap Project, a community focused on making 3-D printers that could make copies of themselves and help create a world without money. We started making prototypes.

I have a garden in my backyard that's completely organic, which I'm very proud of.

Doing business and doing good are not mutually exclusive, and it is our responsibility to prove this every day anew.

I basically made it my mission to prove that ethical fashion isn't frumpy and bland.

I think mobile homes are a blight on the planet. Attractive, affordable housing is possible, and I'm out to prove it.

The notions that nature exists to serve us; that its value consists of the instrumental benefits we can extract; that this value can be measured in cash terms; and that what can't be measured does not matter, have proved lethal to the rest of life on Earth.

Fusion has not been proven to be safe, and it is too costly.

I have to build a new environment for the people. I will place them in ecozones and provide them assistance. I will build hospitals there. There will be economic activity.

Most livestock—an estimated 99% in America, 74% around the world—comes from factory farms.

The top 20 centimeters of soil is all that stands between us and extinction.

Animal products provide only 18% of calories worldwide, yet take up 80% of the earth's farmland.

Pues bien, la Tierra no es un conjunto de parches ni de parcelas: mantenerla habitable y hermosa es una tarea que sólo puede ser asumida por los hombres en cuanto comunidad mundial, no desde el ventajismo miope de unos contra otros.

I'm a farmer now, and it's fantastic. My goal is to be totally self-sufficient and grow everything that I eat. There's something about earning your dinner that's cool.

My dream is to be a farmer myself, but also to provide opportunities to others who don't have the land or the resources, in order to grow food themselves and teach them how to do it.

I would love it if my son becomes a farmer in today's day and age.

Understanding where your food comes from, trying to bolster local farmers and local economies and having a better connection to the food around you and the people around you, only good can come of that. I love to be involved with things like that.

Throughout high school, I peddled my eggs, had a vendor stand at the local curb market - precursor to today's farmers' markets - and competed in 4-H contests and interscholastic debate.