Quotes About Sustainability

In effect, hunter-gatherers work two days a week and have five-day weekends.

All of our waste which we dumped on her and which she absorbed

Loggers move on after they destroy a forest.

Van Laar wasn't a climate change denier, nor did he talk defensively of the United States' appetite for oil. Rather, he confessed, "I don't give much of a fuck, and nobody I know does, either, because this industry is giving me a future, even if it's a short one and we're all about to toast together.

Contrary to a widespread assumption that has crept back into Anglo-American political jargon, few derive pleasure from handouts:

Keynes himself had taken the view that capitalism would not survive if its workings were reduced to merely furnishing the wealthy with the means to get wealthier.

But John Chapman told us he didnt eat meat cause he couldnt stand for somethin livin to be killed jest to keep him alive.

No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers. . . . Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Didn't the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children? — Tecumseh Shawnee This

be financially viable in its current form.

A friend of mine has a big farm in the desert, and she picks up feathers and roadkill for me, then makes it into clothes. I think it's cool to wear roadkill. If I died and somebody wanted to wear my teeth around their neck to VMAs, I'd feel honored.

She had the same responsibility as everybody else did: to live as softly as she could in the world.

there are so many more ways to be a service than to be a product.

Get the ongoing process right and it will keep generating ongoing benefits. In our new era, processes trump products.

Get the ongoing process right and it will keep generating ongoing benefits. In our new era, processes trump products. This

Sustainability is now a big baggy sack in which people throw all kinds of old ideas, hot air and dodgy activities in order to be able to greenwash their products and feel good.

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.

Write code as if you had to support it for the rest of your life.

As a professional programmer, you should know that trying to be focused and "productive" 60 hours a week is not a sensible thing to do.

The greatest gift we can leave this world is the forest and the sea the way we found it, separate and the same, the oldest home of all, older and more beautiful than all the things industrious people pride themselves in building.

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

Fr., I want there to be no peasant in my realm so poor that he will not have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

a technology fair on cow dung gas stoves was being attended by delegates from all over the

Some have accepted the Faustian bargain of maximizing today's earnings per share while operating under restrictions that jeopardize their future competitiveness. But that doesn't mean they're happy about it.

that business, like other stakeholders in society, had a role to play in creating and sustaining shared prosperity. The best way to do so, I came to think, was for companies to adopt a stakeholder model, in which they served society in addition to their shareholders.