Quotes About Sustainability

When children and youth are deprived of their right to education, their community is deprived of a sustainable future. It is all the more true with refugees.

I've always thought one of the tricks of being an actor for a long time is keeping yourself interested once you've figured out how to pay the rent.

It's always a tricky thing, trying to make aid sustainable.

I never tried to make money - just enough to be able to eat.

As technology tries to maintain its dizzying ascent, one dead weight has kept its altitude in check: the battery.

Agriculture can trigger job-led economic growth, provided it becomes intellectually satisfying and economically rewarding.

The Territory has more than 200 trillion cubic feet of gas: potentially enough gas to power Australia for more than 200 years.

The most climate friendly trip we are ever going to take is the trip we never had to take because we were close to what we wanted.

I gave up my fur coats years ago - what an ego trip, walking around wearing cut-up animals. Besides, fur coats don't last. I'd rather have diamonds.

The goal here is to triple the lifespan of human beings. We can't have triple the natural resources, so we need to be more efficient.

Even those among us who are lucky enough to love our jobs would have to admit that at least part of the reason we work is to earn money. In between all this work, we like to eat out at restaurants, go on trips, buy nice things, not to mention pay rent and meet the cost of living.

After moving to California, I went on a no-buy streak. I began refusing short plane trips, using public transit or walking whenever possible, and turning the air-conditioning down. I even started carrying around a water bottle or a mason jar.

The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.

I believe in carbon offset initiatives, in eco-villages, in the sustainable regeneration of the tropical rainforest.

When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble.

When I heard that the bees were in trouble, the fact that they're disappearing and not coming back to the hive, which is a big issue, since a third of the food we eat comes from plants, I figured you couldn't tell the story of the bees without the story of the flowers and how they basically have evolved together for over 150 years.

People are simply screwing up when they go out and buy beefsteak, which is killing them with cancer and heart troubles. The stuff costs a fortune, too. You could feed a thousand people with lentil soup for the cost of half a dozen filets.

For ethical fashion, I really like Reformation. It's so fashionable - no hemp trousers.

Buying from a local farmer can mean that he makes a two-hour extra truck drive, which can damage the environment more than a bunch of bananas on a boat.

People in my neighborhood are so disconnected from the fresh food supply that kids don't know an eggplant from a sweet potato. We have to show them how to get grounded in the truest sense of the word.

The notion of 'reduce and refine' is one I've pursued. I truly believe that by making things less complex, by finding innovative ways to make sustainability affordable, we can advance the notion that it is possible.

Each generation is trusted with protecting our open spaces and natural resources to pass them on to future Americans to enjoy.

The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future.

You've got a global food problem. You've got a food problem in the United States. You've got a food problem in Africa... in Asia. And so the truth is, the U.S. is going to have to produce more, on not very many more acres, honestly. And so we're going to have to do a better job.