Quotes About Sustainability

I like to dedicate myself wholeheartedly to a cause so that I have more impact. My goal is to shed light on the beauty of the ocean and how important it is for our planet.

Our throughput society depends on insecurity, gluttony, and planned obsolescence. It's how we keep the lights on.

But no, it's yoga pants and T-shirts with slogans like "Save the Rain Forest" on them, made only of natural fibers of course.

Everybody has to look at his or her own footprint and do the best they can. It's not about being perfect, it's about doing something. If we're looking for perfection, we'll never, ever get there.

planet when Americans and Europeans cleaned up their towns and cities in the postindustrial era. And they certainly won't become extinct simply because human beings choose to ignore their existence.

The best countries at closing the gender gap are the most peaceful. The best countries at closing the gender gap are the most prosperous. The most peaceful countries are the happiest. The most peaceful countries are best on the environment.

Mother Earth is always giving, even if it's a lesson. She is always giving." –Tiokasin Ghosthorse

A good logger does not raze the forest, but only thins it.

we are confident that the fundamental principle of long-term ownership of quality companies is a sensible one, new

To achieve sustained high returns on capital requires possessing features that protect returns from competition; namely, competitive advantages. Identifying what these competitive advantages are and understanding their sustainability is an essential part of the quality investment process.

Our inability to think beyond our own species, or to be able to co-habit with other life forms in what is patently a massive collaborative quest for survival, is surely a malady that pervades the human soul.

It is also vital that our relationship with nature and the environment be included in our education systems. This is not longer something cute or nice to do; it is now a singular imperative.

So much of our world has been brutally wrested from us; we now have to say enough. No more. Perhaps if enough individuals find out what is actually going on for themselves and start doing something about it, then maybe we can stave off the fast-advancing crisis and create a beautiful. healthy, livable planet where all life flourishes and man is free to rise to greater heights.

Was it always other creatures that had to pay for man's follies with their lives?

The Earth Organization will also create a definitive guide of what can be done in our personal lives to make a difference.

You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government.

Vegetables contain more nutriment than an equal amount of dead flesh. This will sound a surprising and incredible statement to many people, because they have been brought up to believe that they cannot exist unless they defile themselves with flesh, and this delusion is so widely spread that it is difficult to awaken the average man from it.

When I think of ethics, I think of leaving things better than you found them. And to me, that goes from everything from environmentally, to how you work with suppliers with labor questions, to the carbon footprint of your products, to the things you choose to support, to the way you treat your employees. . . . Your whole persona fits under that umbrella.

Tal vez parezca una locura, pero estamos trabajando en ello. […] Nos gustaría ser capaces un día de fabricar nuevos productos única y exclusivamente a partir de materiales reciclados, incluyendo entre ellos los viejos productos de los clientes. Se trata de un experimento de tecnología del reciclaje que nos está enseñando muchas cosas, y confiamos en que este tipo de pensamiento inspire a los demás integrantes de nuestro sector470

Eden Alternative and the Green House Project

It is the market that drives planned obsolescence, not growth or consumerism.

One of the most important popular concepts that we do have to ditch is the idea that there is some natural balance that mankind is intruding upon as a result of our growth.

The globalisation of food (or production of any commodity) is not the enemy per se, although it could and should certainly be more rationally planned.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.