Quotes About Sustainability

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Togi-Jiru (water drained from washing rice) The cloudy water that results from washing rice is called togi-jiru, and it can be used later the same day to cook corn on the cob; fresh peas and beans; or root vegetables such as daikon, lotus root, and burdock root. The vegetables will taste sweeter because their natural sugars are enhanced by the starchy water. The water is also used in the garden, especially for watering flowering plants such as geraniums.

The concept of tourism has changed with industrialization, yes, and standardization," said Harms. "You don't see any difference anymore between one place and another. It's easier to build that way and provide standard service, but how can you preserve a sense of place and culture? The complexity of the tourism industry works against sustainability.

Tourism cannot be outsourced." Philippe Maud'hui of ATOUT France made that declaration in his crowded office on the Place de Catalogne, surrounded by stacks of documents and data showing how much tourism contributes to the economy and how. It is so obvious it was startling.

everything sustaining would last.

Every hour and a half, Louisiana sheds another football field's worth of land.

The size of the greenhouse forcing is estimated, at this point, to be 2.5 w/m2. A miniature Christmas light gives off about four tenths of a watt of energy, mostly in the form of heat, so that, in effect (as Sophie supposedly explained to Connor), we have covered the earth with tiny bulbs, six for every square meter. These bulbs are burning twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, year in and year out.

Time and time again, people have demonstrated that they care about what Rachel Carson called "the problem of sharing our earth with other creatures," and that they're willing to make sacrifices on those creatures' behalf.

Wouldn't it be better, practically and ethically, to focus on what can be done and is being done to save species, rather than to speculate gloomily about a future in which the biosphere is reduced to little plastic vials?

Such a moral stance makes virtually everyone a sinner and makes hypocrites out of many who are concerned about climate change but still partake in the benefits of modernity

Deforestation has contributed another 180 billion tons.

It's just absolute hubris and so arrogant to think that we can survive without everything else. We come from this planet." --- Paul Hardisty, head of the Institute that runs SeaSim in Australia

I was struck, and not for the first time, by how much easier it is to ruin an ecosystem than to run one.

We had lived in savannah for a million years. During that time the world got warm again and wetter, and some of the rain forest returned. But for us it was too late. By then we knew how to live only on the savannah. We could still climb trees, but we did not go back.

We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time.

Por eso la cuestión primordial, la primera y la básica de todas las cuestiones venezolanas, la que está en la raiz de todas las otras, y la que ha de ser resuelta antes si las otras han de ser resueltas algún día, es la de ir construyendo una nación a salvo de la muerte petrolera. Una nación que haya resuelto victoriosamente su crisis petrolera que es su verdadera crisis nacional

The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn't acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.

Hay's for horses, straw is cheaper, grass is free, you live on a farm and you get all three!

Take care of the earth and she will take care of you.

Weeds eat seeds they don't produce

When I tour, I stuff fridges full of organic food and stick to that.

Still, connecting others to the world economy -voluntarily, by pressure, and even by force- constituted, in principle, their only road to sustained real growth and away from the material deprivation, stagnation, zero-sum competition, and high mortality of 'agraria'.

According to the report of the UN's Bruntlandt Commission of 1987, which might be credited with first popularizing the term, sustainable development is "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Keep as near as ever you can to the first sources of supply—fruits and vegetables.