Quotes About Sustainability

China understands that without energy there is no growth and without growth there is no power.

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

In principle, if you understood the mechanisms of keeping things repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely.

Meat is undoubtedly an environmentally expensive food.

My program intends to outsource tree plantation to uneducated rural men and women with a monthly salary of Rs5,000 for barely an hour's work.

Investment in jobs at a time when millions are unemployed can only be a good thing: all the better if the jobs help us shift from a high-carbon to a low-carbon economy.

At Cisco, we believe everyone has the potential to become a global problem solver. We strive to inspire, connect, and invest in opportunities that accelerate global problem solving by empowering people everywhere to work toward eradicating poverty, unemployment, climate change, and hunger.

A robust, sustainably funded unemployment insurance system is Connecticut's most important tool for keeping our families out of poverty and our economy in motion during a recession.

We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.

When the sun is sending more energy to earth in one hour than the entire world consumes in a year, any political play to undermine our ability to harness this energy effectively and efficiently is clearly not economical but it's also unethical.

Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything.

Food is such a basic need, and it is unfathomable to me that people still do not have adequate access.

Timber extraction provides big profits at the expense of local communities. Providing communities with unfettered access to harvest a forest that is protected in perpetuity provides better and more reliable incomes.

Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate.

Self-imposed discipline with a bent towards results rather than 'creative' and sustainability spending is unfortunately not the norm in the marketing industry.

In the soil of the quick fix is the seed of a new problem, because our quiet wisdom is unavailable.

The very existence of the bicycle is an offense to reason and wisdom.

Why should we plant, when there are so many mongongo nuts in the world?

In the world of today, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of all of those contradictions. That is how we ended up complicating our world.

We've got to think now, in real terms, for that seventh generation . . . We've got to get back to spiritual law if we are to survive.

Melt all the tanks in the world and make them rubbish bins. They will be much more useful for the humanity!

Nothing you build will ever last without a lot of tender-loving-care (TLC).

Never cut down a tree whose shade you might need tomorrow.

Nurture a tree today, and it will provide you fruit tomorrow.