Quotes About Sustainability

The question is: why can't parking lots be modest paradises?

Stop production so that production never has to stop.

Energy invested in success theater is energy that could have been used to help build a sustainable business.

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exist to learn how to build a sustainable business.

The question is not "Can this product be built?" In the modern economy, almost any product that can be imagined can be built. The more pertinent questions are "Should this product be built?" and "Can we build a sustainable business around this set of products and services?" To

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The question is not "Can this product be built?" In the modern economy, almost any product that can be imagined can be built. The more pertinent questions are "Should this product be built?" and "Can we build a sustainable business around this set of products and services?

Sustainable growth is characterized by one simple rule: New customers come from the actions of past customers.

In fact, I believe a company's only sustainable path to long-term economic growth is to build an "innovation factory" that uses Lean Startup techniques to create disruptive innovations on a continuous basis.

Qué deberíamos producir y para quién?», «¿En qué mercados podríamos entrar y dominar?», «¿Cómo podríamos crear un valor duradero que no estuviera sujeto a la erosión por parte de la competencia?».[6]

The true measure of effectiveness for the new Environmental Protection Agency will be how fast they put themselves out of business.

To survive is not enough. - Bujun saying

It is much easier and cheaper to follow a vegan diet than it is to perform due diligence on a diet that includes meat, milk, or eggs.

Our world has definitely not learned from past mistakes. Communities have disappeared by mismanagement and by rampant destructions of flora and fauna. "Short time vision" made us irretrievably step out of nature. (Why step out of nature )

What does lasting value mean in a society that is only interested in immediate results? How should we judge a community that simply takes short term projects in account and merely looks at a short-sighted horizon? In point of fact, a clear vision goes beyond a misty horizon. Through its mental dimension, the quality of vision stands out to the sheer physical, geographical or time-based horizon. ("Horizon and Vision" )

The true value of food goes beyond price, and once we collectively start to realize this once again, the challenge will be for policy makers to build food environments that encourage people to make better food choices rather than berating them for making bad ones.

But in most places, the new global diet has involved a narrowing down of what people eat. Our world contains around seven thousand edible crops, yet 95 per cent of what we eat comes from just thirty of those crops. As omnivores, humans are designed to eat a varied diet, so there's something strange and wrong when, as a species, we become so limited in our choice of foods

Before we can resolve our endless quandaries about food - such as 'where the zucchini came from and how far it had to travel' - we should first establish the basic paradigm that at certain times, every day, we stop, we sit and we eat.

There are hundreds of millions of individuals who somehow swim against the tide of the dysfunctional modern food supply and feed themselves pretty well.

Our difficulty is not just that we haven't learned to cook and grow food, however important that is; it's that we haven't learned to eat in ways that support health and happiness

We need new eating methods to take account of the new ways we are being supplied with food.

Most of our approaches to feeding children are too short term. We worry about the next five minutes when we should worry about the next five years.

The most powerful tool to lift families out of extreme poverty is to grant micro-loans to women.