Quotes About Sustainability

There is a reason why trash bags aren't made of transparent plastic.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, food packaging makes up twenty percent of our solid waste nationwide.

Forget the planet, save the garden.

Life should be built on the conservation of energy.

We are running this planet like a business in liquidation.

There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in liquidation.

The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.

Even if we could grow our way out of the crisis and delay the inevitable and painful reconciliation of virtual and real wealth, there is the question of whether this would be a wise thing to do. Marginal costs of additional growth in rich countries, such as global warming, biodiversity loss and roadways choked with cars, now likely exceed marginal benefits of a little extra consumption. The end result is that promoting further economic growth makes us poorer, not richer.

Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited growth.... Yet one certainly does not cure a treatment-induced disease by increasing the treatment dosage.

The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide.

The economy has gotten bigger, the ecosystem has not. How big has the economy become relative to the ecosystem?

It is fine to draw on what is on hand, and painful to have need and not have anything there; I warn you to be carful in this. When the bottle has just been opened, and when it's giving out, drink deep; be sparing when it's half-full; but it's useless to spare the fag end.

My group at least was trying to stretch out its rice supply, and sometimes we were able to supplement the rice with bananas or meat from a cow we had killed.

To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.

If brandy was made out of sparrows there would soon be no sparrows.

But they are also life giving. They impregnate flowers, and they give us our food supply. They work as a collective. Plus they are responsible for the line: "And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

Styrofoam and plastic milk jugs are biodegradable! Do you know what isn't biodegradable? Paper!

Even with the most dependable of refrigeration systems, it is prudent to carry at least 30 days worth of packaged and canned meals on board.

all life forms, no matter how diverse, have common characteristics: 1) they are made up of cells, enclosed by a membrane that maintains internal conditions different from their surroundings, 2) they contain DNA or RNA as the material that carries their master plan, and 3) they carry out a process, called metabolism, which involves the conversion of different forms of energy by means of which they sustain themselves.

The old myth of unlimited growth alienates human beings from nature. To live sustainably we must respect nature and live by its rules. We must walk softly, leaving as small a footprint as possible.

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation, in turn, becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on to the future.

I am involved in Greenpeace. And I just recently completely switched my diet over to near-veganism. So you try to do little things that you can. I recycle every single day. Every single thing in my house that can be recycled is.

Fundamentally, a civilization's problems are rooted in energy development.

The UUe will cannibalize all other economic systems.