Quotes About Sustainability

Marley Coffee is dedicated to my father's dream to return to the farmlands, to offer our family treasures to the world.

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

Sustainability includes how you run your business, and my bottom line includes how you treat your people. Sustainability starts with your staff.

My diet has definitely become greener; however, I am a big proponent of everything in moderation. I enjoy having a farm-to-table dinner, as well as indulging in a special, decadent treat on occasion.

When you meet the farmers and go to the farms, you see that they treat their animals like they're family. It makes a big difference.

Business practices and how we treat the planet are also in desperate need of re-humanization.

I still treat every job as if I might never get hired again as far as the way I save money and live really modestly.

A long, hot bath is a real treat. But from a 'green' point of view, that's probably what it should be: an occasional treat.

The whole of nature cries out at our mistreatment of her. If the planet were a patient, we would have treated her long ago.

We wouldn't think of going to our doctor and saying 'Treat me the way doctors treated people in the 19th Century,' and yet that's what we're demanding in food production.

If we pursue organic farming as our healthy food style, we can bring down cost of treatment to a great extent.

TED Women will focus on the ideas and innovations championed by women and girls. These cover everything from community development to economic growth to biodynamic farming to robotics to medical treatments to the use of technology for personal safety and peace making.

The industrial food system is so cruel and so horrific in its treatment of animals. It never asks the question: 'Should a pig be allowed to express its pig-ness?'

There is a growing scientific consensus that animals have emotions and feel pain. This awareness is going to effect change: better treatment of animals in agribusiness, research and our general interaction with them. It will change the way we eat, live and preserve the planet.

If people knew how KFC treats its chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick.

It is no longer enough to have a good product. A company's purpose and the way it treats its employees and the global community to which it belongs is also of great importance.

The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

Reversing deforestation is complicated; planting a tree is simple.

I live in a tree called Luna. I am trying to save her life. Believe me, this is not what I intended to do with my own.

As soon as a redwood is cut down or burned, it sends up a crowd of eager, hopeful shoots, which, if allowed to grow, would in a few decades attain a height of a hundred feet, and the strongest of them would finally become giants as great as the original tree.

Two boxes of Step Forward Paper saves one tree - that's a real stat.

You can cut a tree down, and it grows back. Once a species goes, it's gone forever.

The world breaks a little bit every time we cut down a tree. It's so much easier to cut one down than to grow one. And so it's worth interrogating every time we do it.