Quotes About Sustainability

When I became a mother, I was trying so hard, using reusable diapers, washing them, looking for organic supplies even though it's much more expensive, and facing so many challenges attempting to do the right thing.

Think about how your jeans would look if you washed and dried them every single day. That's like our hair, and you can't change your hair as often as your pants, so cutting down on washing cuts down on long-term damage.

I do not have AC, TV, microwave or a washing machine in my house.

I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.

The world is surprisingly hard to destroy, whereas saving it can be done a bit at a time.

Why are poorer developing countries like China financing the unsustainable consumption of rich countries like the United States?

It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.

Coal is a portable climate.

Indian Council for Agricultural Research

Fit within the environment rather than on top of it." New development can be designed to nestle into rather than intrude on its natural setting. Scenic views both into and out from the property can be protected if this criterion is one that site designers are

We don't want to create things that people will want to destroy.

Shalom is communal, holistic, and tangible. There is no private or partial shalom. The whole community must have shalom or no one has shalom. As long as there are hungry people in a community that is well fed, there can be no shalom. . . . Shalom is not for the many, while a few suffer; nor is it for the few while many suffer. It must be available for everyone.

Substantial portions of our species still live in this precarious way, which is at least one reason to continue technological progress and the economic enhancement that accompanies it.

Ironically it is GMO plants—many of which are designed to resist insects and other forms of blight and thereby require greatly reduced levels of chemicals, if any—that offer the best hope for reversing environmental assault from chemicals such as pesticides.

The first thing to understand about travel in this environment is that the forest can be your friend; it can supply you with almost everything you need for life if you learn where and how to look. The second thing is that you can be a friend to the forest; if you consider carefully the consequences of your actions, you can learn to harvest resources without causing any harm, sometimes even assisting the natural process of forest growth.

technology based on the use of highly polluting fossil fuels—especially coal, but also oil and, to a lesser degree, gas—needs to be progressively replaced without delay.

Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer.

I'm a bit of a dude. I like meat. But I am buying it more responsibly, where it's more sourced responsibly.

Canadians must realize that the success of our resource sector benefits all Canadians.

I want to see a capitalism that manages resources in a new, much more long-term manner.

I see myself as a conscious capitalist.

The bicycle thing - well, since people couldn't use their cars, they had to use their bicycles, didn't they?

If carbon came out of the ground, it has to go back into the ground.

I am concerned in general about carbon emissions and machine learning.