Quotes About Sustainability

I want to bring back the days when a developer could actually create value for someone who cares, easily and quickly," Cranky Dave says. "I want to build and maintain something for the long haul, instead of shipping the 'feature of the day' and dragging all this technical debt around.

Sustainable farms are to today's headlong rush toward global destruction what the monasteries were to the Dark Ages: places to preserve human skills and crafts until some semblance of common sense and common purpose returns to the public mind.

The problems will be mostly resolved once everyone understands how cities and farms are parts of a whole, not divisible one from another. When we all realize that, as we munch our good, fresh food, it will not only mean a better environment for all, but the end to this silly political anger that colors everything blue or red instead of a lovely productive green. Another

There are many more ways we can adapt. For example, instead of using up our energies harping about big farmers (whom of course we need right now to provide enough food for all of us), buy your own little patch of land to turn into an oasis of food and wildlife abundance. More and more people are doing this rather than standing around wringing their hands about global warming. Your little sanctuary will not be prone to disappear when the inevitable financial crises hit the big commercial farms.

And if you worry that not finishing the food on your plate is a slap in the face of all the hungry people everywhere, you are not living in reality. The truth is that you either throw the food out or you throw it in, but either way it turns to waste. World hunger will not be solved by finishing the garlic mashed potatoes on your plate.

I was being a friend of the earth. You know: recycling the coffee.

We need to understand how the dynamics of innovation, technological advances, urbanization, financial markets, social networks, and population dynamics are interconnected and how their evolving interrelationships fuel growth and societal change—and, as manifestations of human endeavors, how they are all integrated into a holistic interacting systemic framework . . . and whether such a dynamically evolving system is ultimately sustainable.

can any of this be sustainable?

So why do almost all cities remain viable, whereas the vast majority of companies and organisms die?

The system we have evolved critically relies on people continually wanting new cars and new cell phones, new widgets and gadgets, new clothes and new washing machines, new thrills, new entertainment, and pretty much new everything, even when they already have enough of "everything.

It's extremely difficult to kill a city! On

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.

I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.

Peliharalah baik-baik pekerjaan anda, maka ia akan memelihara anda dengan baik pula.

The diamonds were lab made. Arrosa had insisted on the real thing, but I refused. Nobody had died digging my earrings out of the ground, and that mattered to me more than what Houston's elite would think.

Give the dirt a little room.

Andar es el mejor modo de transporte en las distancias cortas, el más conveniente, más barato y más sano. Incontables años de avances tecnológicos no han podido cambiar esto…

A planet might deteriorate even if human beings existed upon it, if the society were itself abnormal and did not understand the importance of preserving the environment." "Surely," said Pelorat, "such a society would quickly be destroyed. I don't think it would be possible for human beings to fail to understand the importance of retaining the very factors that are keeping them alive.

Some day, with all that the Cities could do, the available calories per person would simply fall below basic subsistence level.

Now then, young man, don't ask me to stop the Pumping. The economy and comfort of the entire planet depend on it. Tell me, instead, how to keep the Pumping from exploding the Sun.

the Earth in general can only support so much animal life, and for every aditional pound of human beings and his animal favorites, a pound of other animal life must disappear.

It was less respectable because less immediately useful; and it was poorly financed since it was less profitable.

Essere vegetariano è la mia protesta verso il comportamento collettivo. Essere vegetariano significa essere in disaccordo - in disaccordo su come va il mondo oggigiorno. Carestie, crudeltà - dobbiamo prendere una posizione contro queste cose. Il vegetarismo è la mia presa di posizione. E penso che sia una presa di posizione consistente.