Quotes About Sustainability

If you have a little extra parking, I err on the side of getting rid of it in favor of having some more greenery.

I hope that Los Altos is one of the first cities to have self-driving cars, and if that's true, well, awesome, because there's a lot of parking lots that we could get rid of and use for parks. That would be amazing!

These parks are our life's work, not the clothing chains we created, selling people clothes they don't need.

I like driving at least a part-time electric car because there's nothing coming out of the tailpipe. That's very important to me.

We're doing a partial green nursery and trying as hard as we can to do as much organic stuff for our nursery as we can.

We firmly believe the environmental issues cannot be addressed without extensive public participation, but people need to be informed before they can get involved.

In Copenhagen, we all ride bicycles everywhere, partly because it is impossible to park a car, but also because you can cross the city in 20 minutes on a bike.

My partner loves gardening and beekeeping and chickens and all that stuff.

I embrace a Green New Deal; I just think we have to have public-private partnerships if we're going to get there. We have to align the environmental incentives with the financial incentives.

We are using the same water that the dinosaurs drank, and this same water has to make ice creams in Pasadena and the morning frost in Paris.

I wish being a beekeeper, which I am, gave you a free pass on the carbon footprint, but it doesn't.

My main argument is that environmental destruction comes when people externalise their costs and pass them on to future generations. That is obviously something that large enterprises do and they become large by doing it.

The Northwest Passage is Canadian. People can't just abuse it.

WEF should restrict the number of passes for limos in the parking lots. They need to Keep it Simple.

I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here.

Stock prices in general follow changes in company fortunes. Investors who focus excessively on the short run are ignoring a mountain of evidence demonstrating that most surges in earnings are unsustainable. On the other hand, companies that encounter problems do not let matters slide indefinitely. Managers will set to work making the hard decisions to put their company back on track

If we see each problem—be it water shortages, climate change, or poverty—as separate, and approach each separately, the solutions we come up with will be short-term, often opportunistic, "quick fixes" that do nothing to address deeper imbalances.

The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress.

I've long held that you can judge a country's economic plight by the number of goats it has. The more goats there are, the more desperate the situation in that particular village, town, or country.

The emotionally unhealthy leader is someone who operates in a continuous state of emotional and spiritual deficit, lacking emotional maturity and a "being with God" sufficient to sustain their "doing for God." When

So, basically, my view is I don't want to support the exploitation of animals, and within reason, I will do what I can to avoid it, but it's not like it's a religion for me. It's not like I consider I'm polluted if somehow some bit of milk or cheese or something passes my lips.

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers

By ceasing to rear and kill animals for food, we can make so much extra food available for humans that, properly distributed, it would eliminate starvation and malnutrition from this planet. Animal Liberation is Human Liberation too.