Quotes About Sustainability

The earth is warming at an alarming rate, we are running out of fossil fuels, and it is long past time for us to take action to correct these problems.

Take your time. Some of these fad diets and quick fixes, they might be quick, but you're going to crash and burn.

There is no set period of time or total amount of carbon emissions that we can stay below to ensure we stay safe.

And now it's your turn - the time to answer the greatest challenge of our existence on this planet is now.

The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the century of the renewables.

It is time for a New Direction for our nation's energy policies.

Less land, less time, more crop.

Maybe the only thing that matters is to make our lives last as long as we do. You know, to make a life last until it ends, to make all the parts come out even, like when you rub the last piece of bread in the last drop of oil on your plate and eat it with the last sip of wine in your glass.

Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

The great begins great, sustains itself only through the free recurrence of greatness, and if it is great, also comes to an end in greatness. ... Only the everyday understanding and small man imagine the great must ensure forever, a duration he then goes on to equate with the eternal.

But they are becoming an irrelevant and querulous sect, opposed to everything but wind and solar farms with no thought of what we do when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine. They are against nuclear power, against exploring for natural gas, against coal and oil, against foie gras and even against the use of genetic science in

and, next in importance after health, the ability to maintain ourselves in independence and freedom from care.

How can you measure progress if you don't know what it costs and who has paid for it? How can the market put a price on things - food, clothes, electricity, running water - when it doesn't take into account the REAL cost of production?

Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises--War and Shopping--simply will not work.

If there is any hope for the world at all, it does not live in climate change conference rooms or in cities with tall buildings. It lives low, down on the ground, with its arms around the people who go to battle every day to protect their forests, their mountains, and their rivers because they know that the forests, the mountains, and the rivers protect them.

stilts, the ground floors given over to parking. It's a good idea in this car-maddened city

In Orissa, where it is mining bauxite, Vedanta is financing a university. In these creeping, innocuous ways mining corporations enter our imaginations: the Gentle Giants Who Really Care. It's called CSR, corporate social responsibility.

More rice, for the price of a river.

And then a new question arises: If independence is what we live for, what do we do when it can no longer be sustained?

Our reverence for independence takes no account of the reality of what happens in life: sooner or later, independence will become impossible. Serious illness or infirmity will strike . It is as inevitable as sunset. And then a new question arises: If independence is what we live for, what do we do when it can no longer be sustained?

And then a new question arises: If independence is what we live for, what do we do when it can no longer be sustained? In

If independence is what we live for, what do we do when it can no longer be sustained?

But is this really going to be effective and worthwhile over a forty-year span?

If you conquer the bread problem, that gives you at least a chance to look around at the others.