Quotes About Sustainability

COOK AND, IF YOU CAN, PLANT A GARDEN.

The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world

Try as we might, each of us can eat only about 1500 pounds of food a year. What this means for the food industry is that its natural rate of growth is somewhere around 1% every year (growth of American population).

imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is we're eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what, in a true accounting, it really cost. We could then talk about some other things at dinner. For we would no longer need any reminding that however we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of nature, not industry, and what we're eating is never anything more or less than the body of the world.

nuclear has saved more than two million lives to date by preventing the deadly air pollution that shortens the lives of seven million people per year.

Globally, new tree growth exceeded tree loss for the last thirty-five years, by an area the size of Texas and Alaska combined. An area of forest the size of Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, and Denmark combined grew back in Europe between 1995 and 2015.25 And the amount of forests in Sweden, Greta Thunberg's home nation, has doubled during the last century.26

Only nuclear, not solar and wind, can provide abundant, reliable, and inexpensive heat.

Between 1980 and 2018, U.S. carbon monoxide levels decreased by 83 percent, lead by 99 percent, nitrogen dioxide by 61 percent, ozone by 31 percent, and sulfur dioxide by 91 percent.

we can't keep it going if too much of what we need is taken away from us.

If we look at the rise of our own civilization over the past 100,000 years, since modern humans emerged in Africa, it can be seen as the story of rising energy consumption.

A Dyson sphere is a gigantic sphere around a star, designed to harvest the energy from its massive amounts of starlight.

I love eating meat, but I love our planet even more. So I will join this campaign and stop eating meat at least one day a week.

I love to cook. Very healthy eating. I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. Nothing that had to die.I think there's something odd about eating another living anything.

I love to cook.. but nothing that had to die.

I really love working with brands that are either at the cutting-edge, or are making that first step towards making change within their brand lines.

An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating

I love the farm, I love growing stuff.

I love doing independent films, but it's very hard to make a living that way.

Animals are here to live their lives. We are here to live ours. We can live well without eating them. How pathetic it is that we have to eat a life just to live our lives!

When the gales come, raise a windmill, not a dam.

Enough to feed an army for a year." "Or two satyrs for a month," Newel said.

If stimulation is used when it will not help you achieve something of value, it is an uncomplementary stress. I consider coffee drinking an uncomplementary stress. I view it as a form of credit, similar to shopping with a credit card. You get energy now that you don't actually have, but you pay for it later—when the "bill," or fatigue, hits.

The Thrive Diet is not about perfection or idealism, it's about progress.

In (highly) colloquial terms, the law declares that the production of waste is unavoidable.