Quotes About Sustainability

As I accumulated dozens of new habits—mostly tiny ones—they combined to create a transformation. Sustaining all this did not feel hard. Pursuing change in this way felt natural and oddly fun.

Leave the world in better conditions in wich you found it.

Leave the world in better conditions in wich you found it." [Misattributed to Baden Powell the English mathematician and Church of England priest. Properly attributed Sir Robert Baden-Powell founder of the Scout Movement]

I know I can't rap forever, but I know as long as I got a label or something I can get money forever.

When I was born, the world's population was 3.5 billion. There are now 6.8 billion people on the planet. By 2050, that's expected to rise to 9.4 billion. What's more, the Earth's resources aren't growing; they're decreasing - and rapidly.

I'm not interested in overexpanding rapidly for expansion's sake.

The planet's resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.

I rarely fly, for environmental reasons more than anything else.

We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own.

If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt?

We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.

The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all need to adjust our behavior to this new environment. It would help if we did it quickly.

It's easy to grow 300% in your first year or two, when you're starting with nothing and people first hear about your service. What separates a potential colossus from other businesses is the capacity to keep growing at that rate in years four, five, and beyond.

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.

When I buy something from Raven & Lily, I know that it is good, it is not harming anything, and the people making it are being helped.

If everyone had a business model like Raven + Lily, I feel like the world would be an awesome place to live in.

America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford... The New Deal, in my mind, has become a raw deal for my children.

Of all the peoples of the world, the Chinese are probably the most at home with their excrement. They know its value. For 4,000 years they have used raw human feces to fertilize fields.

The way you support farmers is by shopping and buying raw ingredients.

We have to find alternative ways of producing our raw materials without asking nature to do it for us.

If it's true, as I believe it is, that the planet is alive, then it's probably also true that we may reach a point at which she will begin to defend herself against us.

I have reached the conclusion that Hawaii does not need LNG in our future.

So it's one of those things where we have to - our problem is pacing ourselves and still reaching a large enough number of our audience. Because we don't want to burn the audience. And we don't want to be excluding anybody.

It's become more readily apparent that we need to be growing our own food and growing more things organically.