Quotes About Sustainability

Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.

In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.

I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it.

Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.

Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about 200 million dollars annually on research into renewable energy.

To make a quick buck, but over time, if you're not creating value for others, customers, society, isn't going to let you be around.

Every time we share something rather than own it ourselves, we reduce the stress on the planet. That could make the critical difference as the global population continues to grow.

An industrial system predicated on the delusion of limitless expansion will, in time, consume its own basis of support.

We need to push ourselves to make as many reductions as possible in our own energy use first - and that takes time. But we must do this quickly - the climate will not wait for us.

I feel as a brand I'm here to be around for a long time.

The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate

Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation.

I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.

I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it's common sense.

Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.

Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.

A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no time.

There's never been a better time than now to start or accelerate a greentech venture.

Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.

We are now running out of time, and the question now is not what is happening to the climate, but how bad will it be before the world starts doing enough?

Natural gas is the one fuel that we have that's affordable, it's scaleable, it can replace coal over time, it can replace imported oil, can create American jobs.

The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.

When it's time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.

Shouldn't we be against procreation at this point in time? With overpopulation and the strain on the resources on this planet? Shouldn't we reward people who don't spawn?