Quotes About Sustainability

For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.

We shouldn't be so dependent on foreign oil.

It's not an if - we're going to have to change. Oil is simply going to be gone.

We need to move away from oil, period.

There are some who would like to see the oil rigs removed right down to the ground once their job is done, and there are others, and I count myself among them, who think that once they are in place they begin to be adopted by life in the ocean as a habitat.

Chile is not a rich country in terms of gas, or oil or coal, but we are extremely rich in terms of the energies of the future.

A dramatic decrease in oil availability is not at all far-fetched.

It's fine if you're making 1,000 or 2,000 of an electric car, and I think there is value in that in a lot of ways, but it's not going to have a big dent in oil consumption in the country, or CO2 emissions.

Right now, oil is being isolated around the globe, and there is a major effort in shipping, trucking and otherwise transporting that oil around to a very finite number of refineries. Biology allows us to make these same fuels in a much more distributed fashion.

Oil has allowed us to think about economics as though energy doesn't matter.

It is not oil or the environment, it is oil and the environment. We are living in the same world. We are not enemies.

Canadians need to start thinking of themselves as a petrostate, and they need to start thinking of the kinds of controls needed to protect the country from the excesses of oil.

Oil is largely our energy past, and Keystone does little to respond to the actual challenges and opportunities before us.

We're going to need oil and gas and coal for a long time if America wants to keep the lights on.

My life is to travel, and my life is also to speak out about the horrors of an environment that is being abused at the hands of oil companies.

If somebody comes along and says, 'OK, Benny Hinn, I'm gonna help you financially so you can pay your own bills,' or if I can do it on my own and get a job and do something on the side like I'm doing now, it would be a pleasure.

I don't buy fur coats or jewelry. I have old cars.

More kids should churn butter. That's how it was in the old days.

I want people to fall back in love with clothes like they did in the old days, and value what they buy a little more, and look after clothes better.

My father, OK, when we first got old enough to hunt, this was his rule: If you shoot it, you come home and eat it. Otherwise you do not shoot it, OK? You don't just kill something for the sake of killing it, OK? If you kill it, you gotta grill it, so to speak.

People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library.

We have to understand what the older generation has dealt to us, what mess they have created that we have to clean up and live with.

I know once people get connected to real food, they never change back.

People should try eating no animal products for just one day a week.