Quotes About Sustainability

Come rain or shine I walk short distances rather than taking my car.

Pero siempre ol vida que "tener" no significa "mantener", ni "poseer" "conservar".

We have to stop thinking about ourselves so much and start thinking about the environment. We have to change.

I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle.

Some of my students believe that if you spend more time outdoors receiving the energy of the natural world, you will have less need for the industrial energy grid. What do you think?

In the U.S. there are 45,000 shopping malls employing 10.7 million people. The average American family of four metabolizes four million pounds of material every year to support their lifestyle. That's 11,000 lbs. a day, 7.5 lbs. a minute.

Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.

The truth is that we will never save wildlife by killing it.

The truth is this: the Earth cannot provide enough food and fresh water for 10 billion people, never mind homes, never mind roads, hospitals and schools.

We are eating, using up, and possessing more than we should. That is why a large portion of the human population is hungry.

To understand the future of technology, we need to begin with one fundamental truth: Technology is natural.

seemed that the DIY ethos that gave birth to the indie rock movement was threatening to become its undoing. Now everyone was doing it themselves—and a lot of it was mediocre. And like an oversize herd of deer, there was simply too much of it for all to thrive.

Try to find a little more entertainment from your own resources.' As opposed to going out and buying it.

told her to clean up all the empty shells so they could recycle them. He said he'd wait for her in the

People aren't studying the natural world any more, they're mining it.

The biggest cause of environmental destruction is poverty. Starving people can't worry about pollution. They worry about food. Half

If there's anything worse than a limousine liberal," Morton said, "it's a Gulfstream environmentalist.

People worry about losing species diversity in the rain forest. But what about intellectual diversity—our most necessary resource? That's disappearing faster than trees. But

Thirty thousand years ago; when men were doing cave paintings at Lascaux, they worked twenty hours a week to provide themselves with food and shelter and clothing. The rest of the time, they could play, or sleep, or do whatever they wanted. And they lived in a natural world, with clean air, clean water, beautiful trees and sunsets. Think about it. Twenty hours a week.

Save the Earth" and beneath that, "There's Nowhere Else to Go.

These numbers demonstrate that we can absolutely afford an aging society. In fact, enhanced longevity is essential for our society. That's because if longevity increases without better health, it will mean higher costs of medicine and health care as people live longer. And that financial burden can overwhelm a country's ability to handle an aging and unhealthy demographic.

Would-be green capitalism is nothing but a publicity stunt, a label for the purpose of selling a commodity, or - in the best of cases - a local initiative equivalent to a drop of water on the arid soil of the capitalist desert.

Chico Mendes definiu com as seguintes palavras as bases desta aliança: Nunca mais um companheiro nosso vai derramar o sangue do outro; juntos nós podemos proteger a natureza, que é o lugar onde nossa gente aprendeu a viver, a criar os filhos e a desenvolver suas capacidades, dentro de um pensamento harmonioso com a natureza, com o meio ambiente e com os seres que habitam aqui.

In 1872, the average American farmer fed roughly four other people; now the average farmer feeds about 155 other people.