Quotes About Sustainability

We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories.

Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere.

I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric.

If everybody (traded his car for a horse) they would be out of debt in a couple of years. Just think, no gas, no tires, no roads to pay for.

I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book.

The new energy future is decentralised, entrepreneurial and needs people like you to say 'Give me a clean car, give me solar shingles to put on my roof - give me a clean future'

Did we put our kids in 0.5-mile-per-gallon (mpg) tanks and 17 feet per gallon aircraft carriers because we failed to put them in 32-mpg cars?

2020. There'll be cold fusion. We'll actually be able to power our cars with our own feces. That's right. The emissions problem will be a little intense, but just light a match.

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.

I drive a hybrid, moving into an electric car. I only drink tap water, never consume food that's travelled.

I drive a hybrid. It's a Ford Escape. That's my only car.

The car has made our lives more difficult. If not for it, we would have everything we needed within walking distance.

What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.

My main form of exercise is my bike. I dont have a car, so I cycle everywhere.

Switching to light-coloured roofs and roadways would have the equivalent effect on greenhouse gas emissions to taking one billion cars off the road for eleven years.

One of the reasons I'm excited by what visionary Elon Musk has done with the Tesla is to show that you can reduce global warming and drive a powerful, fun car. A cool car helps make a cooler planet.

Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.

Every action has a reaction. We've got one planet and one chance.

I want to live somewhere where it rains a lot and things grow furiously. I want to see the fruits of the earth multiply and all that sort of thing. I want to make provision for the future. I want to lay up riches on earth since I don't believe in heaven. Not material riches— I want green fields and fat cows and oak trees.

The urge to garden transcends social circumstance, which accounts for the allotment movement, of which more later, and the floral energy of small front gardens up and down the land.

Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity.

If managers focus only on short-term results, they are often justified in continuing to intervene to sustain results.

Generative learning cannot be sustained in an organization if people's thinking is dominated by short-term events. If we focus on events, the best we can ever do is predict an event before it happens so that we can react optimally. But we cannot learn to create.

The materialistic consciousness of our culture … is the root cause of the global crisis; it is not our business ethics, our politics or even our personal lifestyles. These are symptoms of a deeper underlying problem. Our whole civilization is unsustainable. And the reason that it is unsustainable is that our value system, the consciousness with which we approach the world, is an unsustainable mode of consciousness.