Quotes About Sustainability

The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.

It is plainly evident that, in a country where land was to be had for the asking, fuel for the cutting, corn for the planting and harvesting, and game and fish for the least expenditure of labor, no man would long serve for another, and any system of reliable service indoors or afield must fail.

Nuclear plants are part of the backbone of our electric grid. They are reliable, they are clean.

We need to face it, as a nation we have a reliance on petroleum.

When all is said and done, cheap gas is an illusion, because our reliance on gas creates a whole series of costs that aren't factored in to the pump price - among them congestion, pollution, and increased risk of accidents.

Ending our reliance on fossil fuels was never going to be easy.

One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.

Social enterprise is at its most impactful when the goal is empowerment, not relief.

It was a long journey, but it was also a relief to see that first plastic being caught.

Protecting Americans from harm goes beyond police and national defense. It's imperative that we not destroy the commons, the physical environment on which we rely.

No longer should we rely on oil from countries that are not necessarily friendly or democratic.

We should learn to live more with our climate and rely less on electricity to alter our climate.

Many nonprofits rely on grants alone.

Punjab makes up 2 per cent of India's population and yet it produces 40 per cent of the nation's food pool. Even now, if tomorrow there is famine, it will be the Punjabi farmer who saves you. So, don't rely on the plenty of today, there may be a paucity tomorrow. Don't write Punjab off.

You have to figure out some way of making money without relying on video ads or people paying to download.

Some vegetarians and vegans may object to in vitro meat, because they don't see the need for meat at all. That's fine for them, and of course they are free to remain vegetarians and vegans and choose not to eat in vitro meat.

The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce.

The cost of the high-cost economy remains too high.

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

Economic development is what's going to make mountaintop removal palatable.

Garbage removal is a citizen responsibility.

If it can't be proven that mountaintop removal mining is safe, we shouldn't allow it to continue.

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.