Quotes About Sustainability

'Green' issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.

I'm happy to buy something that was previously owned, as long as I can get it conveniently.

As a business owner, I understand the importance of prioritizing your bottom line, but it's equally as important to consider how you can succeed while also thinking about the long-term impact on the community.

Clubs shouldn't be counting on an owner just as a benefactor.

There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.

The day will come when the notion of car ownership becomes antiquated. If you live in a city, you don't need to own a car.

We could live in a much better society if there was less personal car ownership.

We want to get to the point that using Uber is cheaper than owning a car.

I called my party the Green Oxygen party because Colombians were choking.

People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is that India's economy continues to grow at clipping pace, 8% and above, that itself brings host of benefits to the people. It brings better roads, it brings better schools, brings more money to the communities, it brings more jobs.

There are a lot of irritating aspects about large supermarkets for the wannabe eco-warrior, but the one that gets most of us hottest under the collar is packaging.

You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail.

I love a cardboard coffin. Both Mummy and Daddy went off in cardboard coffins, painted - Daddy's was rifle green. Beautifully made.

We make decisions every day about what we're going to eat. And some people want to buy Nike shoes - two pairs, and other people want to eat Bronx grapes and nourish themselves. I pay a little extra, but this is what I want to do.

I want to be around when I'm 60; I don't want to be some flash in the pan.

I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hotels in the U.S.

This paradigm that says we have to choose industry over the environment or the environment over industry is the old way of thinking.

You want to keep the severity of our environmental problems in mind enough to keep yourself motivated but not enough to paralyze you into depression.

Ask any parent what we want for our children, and invariably we say 'a better life.' To that end, we give our time, our sleep, our money, and our dreams, much as our parents did before us. We all want a better life for our children. But what we want for them ceases to matter if we leave them an unlivable world.

We will stand by the Paris climate deal.

Norway is combating climate change. It's an important issue for us. And we are committed to the Paris Agreement.

Park City is developing itself, almost to death.

Most cars are parked at any point in time; my estimate is that I use my car about three percent of the time.

I spent 18 months with the furniture parked in front of the radiators, cooking as quickly as I possibly could to use the least amount of gas and electricity. I unscrewed the lightbulbs in the hallway, unplugged everything at the wall so not even the LCD display was blinking away on the oven.