Quotes About Sustainability

it would take much, much less energy to repair our world than for all of us to travel to another one.

We will have very smart cities by the year 2020…

If you talk to the big polluters, they'll tell you that we have to choose between economic prosperity on one hand and environmental protection on the other, and that's a false choice.

was China in some sense a victim of its own success – stuck in a 'high-level equilibrium trap' by the ability of its cultivators to provide a vast number of people with just enough calories to live?

Sirve el Hummer para la conquista, o para el consumo? La respuesta es que para ambas cosas. De hecho, con su bajo kilometraje por litro (un promedio de cuatro kilómetros por litro) y su gran altura y anchura, ejemplifica el despilfarro estadounidense en el uso del petróleo.

I can say that if anyone has worked to save the mountains, they are women.

Any time you put people in a room with Bill McDonough, they leave there blown away, their mouths agape. I had a similar feeling when I first met Al Gore.

How we move forward with a level of R&D support that will be meaningful allows us to really build on and enhance our energy opportunities in this country.

I believe the green movement is gaining momentum because people are becoming more educated about the real importance of living green.

The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's.

Nature moves towards balance.

We try to make children problem-solvers. That gave birth to solar-heated mud buildings, using greenhouses to grow things and ice stupas - artificial baby glaciers.

Why buy sanitary napkins from multinationals when we can make them at home and generate employment?

I had a free-range childhood. We lived in town but with a cow, chooks, bees, and multiple veggie gardens so we could live self-sufficiently.

The music industry is not set up well at all, environmentally. But I sing about what I feel, and I'm very inspired by activists and friends that I get to connect with.

The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life.

I am an environmentalist, but I'm not a wacko environmentalist. I believe that mankind and nature can live side-by-side for the mutual benefit of both.

My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living at it.

The only meat I eat is from animals I've killed myself.

We have a system that is deeply narcissistic - the consumer sort of capitalist culture. It's all about me and now and what do I need that just makes you feel a bit better with all the stress. But in other healthy cultures, they have a real sense of ancestor and a sense of the next seven generations.

The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency.

Food is national security. Food is craft. Food is everything, when you think about it.

Food security is a global problem, with real and immediate effects on national security.

The rich agricultural nations are the ones that can adapt to the new biotechnologies.