Quotes About Sustainability

The trend in the world right now is - not just in developed countries, but in developing countries including China and India - there is a movement to build more and more nuclear plants.

In the five years from 2007 to 2012, we only gained a little over 1,200 farmers. Since we aren't going to stop eating, we have to reverse that trend, or we'll see even more consolidation, more corporate farms, or increasing food imports; none of that is in our interest.

If fashion is for everyone, is it fashion? The answer goes far beyond the collections and relates to the speed of fast fashion. There is no longer a time gap between when a small segment of fashion-conscious people pick up a trend and when it is all over the sidewalks.

I think it is good when something can stay interesting for a long time. It's not just a trend for one month.

If we become better with carbon capture technology, I think we can start a global trend toward carbon awareness.

The thing is to be able to outlast the trends.

I don't personally follow trends; I don't even like the idea of trends. I think it's kind of absurd that you have to change every six months, so I always try and buy things that hopefully I'll like forever, and resonate with me.

The bicycle might just be the greatest of all inventions. It empowers the human machine, and with no input beyond perhaps a trendy isotonic health drink in a brightly coloured bottle at an inflated price.

It took me eight years of trial and error to design the machines that would make low-cost pads: just Rs 2 each, compared to those made by the MNCs that are priced anywhere above Rs 6 to Rs 100.

Millets are an integral part of tribal life and a staple diet of tribals of Odisha since time immemorial.

On this National Agriculture Day, when we all should be taking time to thank and pay tribute to America's farmers, ranchers and their families who produce the food for our tables, we are finding those same people in dire need of our help and support.

We were meant to rescue each other, not cut down the forest to rescue one.

Without love, life is unsustainable.

Hopes are plants, which need care, love, and irrigation.

This world belongs to our future generations, so we have to take utmost care of it.

I don't feel too excited about fashion today People just want cheap fast clothes and are happy to look like everyone else

Waste equals food, whether it's food for the earth, or for a closed industrial cycle. We manufacture products that go from cradle to grave. We want to manufacture them from cradle to cradle.

In a world of plenty, no one, not a single person, should go hungry. But almost 1 billion still do not have enough to eat. I want to see an end to hunger everywhere within my lifetime.

We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature.

On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree

Customers want good value, but they care more than ever how food and clothing products are made.

Just because people want to eat the burger doesn't mean they want to meet the cow.

When you sail on a boat you take with you the minimum of resources. You don't waste anything. You don't leave the light on; you don't leave a computer screen on... on land we take what we want

The world we want is an enormous responsibility.