Quotes About Sustainability

A distinction between renewable and not renewable energy is academic.

I support renewable energy.

If you're going to spend most of your time in your democracy figuring out how to get oil by intervening into other people's countries and insuring that you follow it with military might, we think there's an alternative. Which would be renewable energy.

I think it's really important as we position Hawaii as the policy leader in renewable energy.

Renewable energy and climate change are very important to a lot of people, because we need jobs and we really, really believe that we can create jobs by moving down a path toward 100 percent renewable energy.

We have to move toward renewable energy in a big way here in America.

We need to pay our dues to live on this earth; we need to pay the rent, and I'm doing that with the work we are carrying out here in Patagonia.

I can pay my rent now. I guess I could always do that, but now I can get an apartment with heat.

I rent space on a farm for 15 dollars a month, and I have the use of about a quarter of an acre.

As long as I can pay rent, that's all I care about.

When you buy something for $9.99, and you know that it'll fall apart after you wear it once... you're going into the shopping experience knowing that you're renting. So all I'm doing is making the rental process more efficient.

I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead.

We've forgotten to respect clothes and consider who made them and where the material came from. We've been encouraged to buy things and, if we don't like them, bin them. When I grew up, we'd repair things or alter them.

Most producers who want you to dance are not looking at the long term. They see their evenings, the box office, whom they have to repay, whatever.

As with oil, water exploitation raises an inter-generational debt that will be hard to repay.

The South Coast is not teeming with fish any more; there are no fleets of trawlers left. Small local boats land their fish daily and often sell it at the back of the beach, a scenario repeated all the way from West Bay to Whitstable.

I'd like to see what fraction of things that chemists have figured out we could actually teach nature to do. Then we really could replace chemical factories with bacteria.

We can replace the big monitors in hospitals with intelligent, disposable plasters that you throw away after wearing for a couple of days.

Tar sands are attractive, but like biofuels, they will never replace Middle East oil.

There's nothing that can replace quality programs in a non-profit.

When you think of all the things that are made from oil or in the chemical industry, if in the future we could find cells to replace most of those processes, the ideal way would be to do it by direct design.

Western countries can cut down coal and replace it by renewables; I will need to have more coal.

We need to replace coal with gas. We need to leave oil in the ground.

After 12,000 years of feeding humankind, all farming except fruit and veg production is likely to be replaced by ferming: brewing microbes through precision fermentation.