Quotes About Sustainability

The struggle is against a nation that will always spit in its grandchildren's faces for immediate profit. As Vizenor would say, 'Their Mother Earth is a blond.' " In

The long-term impacts of GMOs are unknown, and once released into the environment, these novel organisms cannot be recalled.

Interestingly, one notable way of restoring soil is the planting of cannabis or hemp, which absorbs more CO2 than any other tree, shrub, or plant known to man. But growing cannabis remains illegal in the United States. Rattan

He was thinking that the cities, perhaps, needed to look into the future even more than the country did. They should look ahead for forty, eighty, one hundred and sixty years, to a strong and healthy plain of population - or to an overworked, weakened, underfed, and infertile desert.

We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

And I'm asking you for your good and for your nation's security to take no unnecessary trips, to use carpools or public transportation whenever you can, to park your car one extra day per week, to obey the speed limit, and to set your thermostats to save fuel. Every act of energy conservation like this is more than just common sense -- I tell you it is an act of patriotism.

Há carne biológica produzida em «quintas» inglesas tão tradicionais que as vacas são transportadas entre pastagens por passadeiras rolantes.

Factory farming is the practice whereby hogs and chickens live out their lives in such close confinement that sows cannot even turn around to see their piglets, which must suckle under a steel barrier, and a hen can't even stand up and flap her wings after her egg rolls away down a conveyor belt.

Long term sustainability requires relentless endurance and gratitude in all your efforts.

People should not expect to eat if they did not work.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.

When I die my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills.

Indian paper is famous, Egyptian papyrus, Chinese paper... every country has used this natural material. But the problem is it's going to run out because it's very difficult work.

You can do good work simply staying up all night and eating nothing but junk food, but probably not in the long term.

Corn ethanol can help in the short term, but it has serious limitations, and none of this is going to work if we don't dramatically improve the efficiency of our cars and trucks.

I want to work on environmental issues.

Putting yourself first isn't being selfish, it's what allows you to serve others effectively & sustainably.

We should always be realistic about our needs, steer clear of this over indulgence & self imposed poverty nonsense.

I wanna see more gardens and trees in the hood! I wanna see better quality food. I wanna see respect for self!

The name of the game is taking care of yourself, because you're going to live long enough to wish you had.

The bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created. Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon.

Well, you go to Holland and everybody's on a bike - nobody would think to have a car.

I really enjoy not getting in a car and running errands on bikes.