Quotes About Sustainability

Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.

Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day. Give a man Twitter, and he will forget to eat and starve to death.

More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecological crises until we find a new religion, or rethink our old one.

Technology and Ideology are shaking the foundations of 21st century capitalism. Technology is making skills and knowledge the only sources of sustainable strategic advantage.

All of the clean technologies are known, it's a question of simply applying them.

Humans are now the most numerous mammal on the planet. There are more humans than rats or mice. Humans have a huge ecological footprint, magnified by their technology.

Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting.

The gains made by better management and technology are still being outpaced by the environmental impacts of population and economic growth. We are on an unsustainable course.

We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth.

I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.

Climate change isn't just an environmental issue; it's a technology, water, food, energy, population issue. None of this happens in a vacuum.

Transhumanist technology will do much for the world that the world can't really imagine yet, including overcome some of the climate issues the world is facing.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung.

How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.

I want New Story education to be skilling human beings and young people to provide basic human needs. Technology and all other things are icing on the cake.

Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.

The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way.

After a brief couple of years in the late '70s, public funding for clean energy technologies dried up and has been on the decline ever since.

Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil.

What we are finding out now is that there are not only limits to growth but also to technology and that we cannot allow technology to go on without public consent.

We have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil... The best way to break this addiction is through technology.

The soil is actually the greatest technology we have for adapting to climate change. And I feel it's our generation's duty to build it back up.

The best and most evolved technologies are those that do not destroy the very base on which we live

Suppose that climate change is not real and all we do is adopt green technologies, which our economy and our technology is perfectly capable of. Then all we've done is given our kids a cleaner world.