Quotes About Sustainability

A club like ours loses £8-10m every year to be competitive, and nobody wants to keep a business that is losing money every year.

I think the way you build a company for the future has to include social impact; it has to be part of the fabric of your company. I think when you do that, you invariably end up with much better outcomes, even in the short-term.

Improving Africa's farming sector would have multiple positive outcomes for African people.

There is a reason it is called fossil fuel-it is an outdated method of getting power.

Learning Gardens are outdoor classrooms, engaging learning environments where kids learn about math, science, entrepreneurship, and above all else, real food.

I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

I've always loved being outdoors, getting my hands dirty.

We have our work cut out to make sure our outdoors will always remain accessible.

I don't want to outlive my money.

I would like the Hunter Foundation to outlive everything.

My house and my garden are built as part of nature, not over it.

I was always aware that this whole Earth is on overload.

Climate change has completely overshadowed the conservation concerns that used to be so important to the Democratic Party.

The link between beast and plate was always made clear, in very unsentimental terms; all the creatures on the farm were for milking or eating, save Humphrey, an overweight and irritable sheep who had escaped the abattoir though pure strength of character. Cruelty to any beast was unthinkable and still remains one of the most important lessons I learned; if we eat meat, we must ensure it was raised in the most humane way possible.

In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.

Local and regional food systems are about opportunity.

If you want one year of prosperity, grow grain, if you want ten years of prosperity, grow trees, if you want a hundred years of prosperity, grow people. Chinese proverb

Language preservation is like saving the birds. We don't want birds to go extinct. Imagine Canada without the sound of a loon. It's a classic Canadian sound. Canada would lose part of its soul if loons went extinct. It's the same thing with languages. Native languages, in this country, or in any country, are part of its sonic environment. It's part of our connection with the earth. We must each do our part in any way we can to preserve these languages.

The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.

Man was not designed to eat pills and powders and all the other chemicals they pump you full of. We were meant to live off the land in harmony with it. Not in some safety bubble.

With the remaining 80 pesos, a Cuban has to pay around 15 pesos for the electric bill, 6 pesos for cooking gas, 5 pesos for water and sewer, and maybe 15–20 pesos if he or she is still paying for an apartment (although most people have finished paying their installments and own their dwellings). With

bottoming out for cotton. But these things do tend to

A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people.

every organization must contribute in some way to a better world for some group of people, because if it doesn't, it will, and should, go out of business.