Quotes About Sustainability

Our country is indebted to our farmers who are our annadata, because of whose hard work we are self-reliant in foodgrain.

We will remain independent for as long as our economy develops as needed. We won't be able to maintain our independence if we ruin the economy.

Energy independence and energy security are really two different things.

Energy independence is very important to me.

We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that.

BUILD CLIMATE MITIGATION INTO YOUR PROJECT No task is more urgent today than mitigating the climate crisis—not only for the common good but for your organization, yourself, and your family.

We know what's good: climate mitigation, for instance, by electrifying everything—homes, cars, offices, factories, shops—and making sure that the electricity comes from abundant renewable sources. We have the ability to do this.

And why are wind and solar power the most reliable projects of all, more likely than any other project type to be delivered successfully?

My answer to this was that the purest-bred cats made better mousers when they were fat than when they were starving; and in the same way honest craftsmen did much better work when they had plenty to live on.

The fuckin' cavemen had it right. They knew. An afternoon's work killing a dinosaur and live off it for a couple of weeks.

CSR shall be unmistakably defined as a responsibility incumbent upon all management levels and it shall be subject to ongoing follow-up by top executives".

CSR sustains that companies should see to their personnel healthcare.

Grub first, then ethics.

Food comes first and then morality Bertolt brecht

Strict vegetarianism is with us a principle, because we believe it to be best in every way, not only for ourselves but for all the world around us.

If people want to eat meat, they should kill the animals for themselves.

Coffee in styrofoam is against my religion.

by treating nature as exterior and inferior to humans we saw no harm to ourselves in polluting the soil, the plants, the air and the water. We did not notice the effect of our pollution on whatever walked over it, ran across it, climbed up it, flew through it, or swam in it. Now we notice that harming other constituents of our planetary system brings harm to ourselves.

Love isn't like a cup of sugar that gets used up

A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.

The long term approach is rare enough that it means you're not competing against very many companies. 'Cause most companies wanna see a return on investment in, you know, one, two, three years.

Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, not the trees.

Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground--everything that has the breath of life in it--I give every green plant for food."

A little thing we've begun to do is replace all the traditional light bulbs in our house with fluorescent light bulbs. I introduced a bill to promote compact fluorescent light bulbs. If every family in America changed just one bulb, we could reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 7 million tons per year. There are a lot of little things we can do to make a gigantic change.