Quotes About Sustainability

I have to have faith that we're going to succeed in transforming where we get our energy from. The big worry is whether or not we're going to do it before it's too late. And I think nobody knows the answer to that.

In the same way we have a long-term plan for building roads, we have to have a long term plan to build transit.

Fly ash helps create longer-lasting and stronger concrete for use in roads, bridges, runways, and rail transit.

Transit builds a city that people choose to live in.

Walk, skateboard, bike, car pool, or use mass transit more, and drive less.

Carving out space for protected bike lanes is the most cost-effective way to increase our transit capacity and move more people on our streets.

We need to be able to live in the city without a car; we need to be able to get around. The transit system has to be strong and work for everyone.

A transition to clean energy is about making an investment in our future.

I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.

The history of energy use is a sequence of transitions to sources that are cheaper, cleaner, and more flexible.

The U.K. government faces three choices to deal with carbon-heavy fossil fuels: force people to stop using them immediately; facilitate a rapid transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy; or hope business-as-usual market forces solve our problem for us.

We must transition away from the dirtiest fossil fuels toward renewable sources of energy for the sake of our economy and our planet.

We have to be reminded that we still live in a world that relies a lot on fossil fuels, and that transition to new and renewable sources is not always and in all cases possible from one day to the next.

The recognition that things that are not sustainable will eventually come to an end does not give us much of a guide to whether the transition will be calm or exciting.

Let's get government support for farmers to make the transition to organic.

By far, the greatest contribution Ireland can make is to lead by example, by actively pursuing its own transition to a sustainable, low-carbon economy.

There is no such thing as a Fourth Industrial Revolution with 9 billion thriving co-citizens in the world if it is accomplished on linear economic principles. We need a transition to circular economic principles and practice.

We need to really get very serious about a transition toward new and renewable sources of energy.

If there was ever a state that can transition to renewables and then get it on the market, it's us.

From Portland's ban on large, fossil fuel terminals to Oregon's Clean Fuels Standard and the Clean Electricity and Coal Transition Act, our local actions send ripples through the energy landscape nationwide.

A change in the system will be possible only through the transition of power to supporters of green politics.

We should transition away from carbon-based fuels, but that is not something that you can just flip a switch metaphorically, no pun intended, and start immediately like banning fracking. It's a transition.

As a large producer of solid waste, the Commonwealth must lead by example and transition away from single-use disposable plastics to create a cleaner, more sustainable future for all Virginians.

I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us.