Quotes About Sustainability

Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream America, two or three kids, mom and dad working outside the home, that's not a very good deal.

A good beginning is like a honeymoon; it gets over soon. The challenge is in keeping up the momentum.

Here's a bit of Discovery Channel for you - apples don't last forever. They can stay fresh for a long time, especially when refrigerated, but definitely not from December into the month of March.

Since we're all Mother Earth's children, I like to think that more and more of us will be out there helping her against those who are hurting her.

I'm here for the long-term, that's for sure. I think this championship is growing massively. It's only going to get more and more interesting.

One of the fastest ways to build the clean energy economy is to allow more people to benefit from it.

I want London to be the most cycle-friendly city on Earth, and I want more people to be happy and safe on bicycles.

I think and hope there are far more people aware of the need to look after our future.

With fewer resources to share around more people, how can the poor have improved lifestyles?

Aotearoa is one of the most beautiful places in the world and we have to protect that.

The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries.

We want to find a way to be an environmental leader in motor sports, as well as in sports in general.

The question is wether any environmental catastrophe, even severe climate change, could possibly inflict the same terrible human cost as keeping 3 or 4 billion people in poverty. To ask that question is to answer it.

Antibiotics, viral tabs, painkillers, sterilisation spray," Kasyanov said. "Other stuff. Bandages, medicines, contraceptives. Hoop raised an eyebrow. "Hey. Forever is a long time.

How can a business create more value for society than it captures for itself?

The economic value of ecotourism related to coral reefs alone totals some $9 billion.

We are living textbooks on global warming and nuclear materials, crisscrosssed with interobjective calligraphy.

The idea that there are multiple worlds because there are multiple lifeforms and that no one world or scale is the right one means that efficiency is only efficient from a particular standpoint. For example, the idea of sustainability implies that the system we now have is worth sustaining.

The average yard is both an ecological and agricultural desert. The prime offender is short-mown grass, which offers no habitat and nothing for people except a place to sit, yet sucks down far more water and chemicals than a comparable amount of farmland.

The average yard is both an ecological and agricultural desert.

On a visit to a hardware store I heard a man ask, What can I get to kill all the bugs in my yard? I nearly began shrieking.

There's no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon.

The only question is how to make love stay.

If we're ever going to get the world back on a natural footing, back in tune with natural rhythyms, if we're going to nurture the Earth and protect it and have fun with it and learn from it - which is what mothers do with their children - then we've got to put technology (an aggressive masculine system) in its proper place, which is that of a tool to be used sparingly, joyfully, gently and only in the fullest cooperation with nature. Nature must govern technology, not the other way around.