Quotes About Sustainability

Svatantra's journey began with a vision to make women in rural areas self-sustainable.

Over the past two years, the Obama Administration and USDA have worked to build a foundation for sustainable economic growth in rural America. At the center of our vision is an effort to increase domestic production and use of renewable energy.

Food is as important as energy, as security, as the environment. Everything is linked together.

You will learn why Louise always says, "If it doesn't grow, don't eat it!

If it grows, eat it. If it doesn't grow, don't eat it.

Abby Hoffman said we should all eat what we kill. That would put an end to war.

Ruth believed in precycling. An evolution on recycling. She made use of things before people threw them out.

Gaia—which in Greek means "the earth.

People have to work for a living. There's no way around it. Your parents worked for a living, my parents worked for a living. You have to work for a living too. Even if you move to Portland like every other millennial, you'd still have to do something. Drive

Growth for growth's sake is not a good strategy and, according to Collins, is the beginning of the end. Big is not the same as great, and neither is bigger necessarily more profitable.

What is the point of labeling each individual piece of fruit? Buy the fruit, EAT the ad! We've carved a chunk out of the ozone, burned up all the rainforests, soon we won't be able to BREATHE, and all because we had to label each individual piece of fruit.

I definitely love that all these car brands are coming out with hybrid forms of every car that they have. It's very awesome because I think it does make a difference, and it doesn't hurt that you save a lot of money on gas.

He who plants a tree Plants a hope.

Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties.

Keynes did not teach us how to perform the "miracle . . . of turning a stone into bread,"[4] but the not at all miraculous procedure of eating the seed corn.

Marriage didnt really seem to be about love; it was about the ability to live together for a long period of time

For Nina and Nathaniel, it's all about the end product—pouring it on pancakes and waffles. But to Caleb, the beauty is in the way you get there. The blood of a tree, a spout, and a bucket. Steam rising, the scent filling every corner of the house. There is nothing quite like it: knowing every breath you take is bound to be sweet.

Anger, it turns out, is a renewable source of fuel.

pretty soon, there will be ten billion people coming to dinner. And there is no way they are going to be fed organically.

To become healthy, disease-resistant, and permanently thin, you can't escape the necessity of eating large amounts of nutrient-rich, healthy food.

Your total animal-product consumption (beef, poultry, fish, dairy products) should be limited to twelve ounces or less per week. Keep

Look, if you need sexy egg cartons to sell our eggs, then you need to educate your customers. We don't intend to patronize big oil just so we can sell eggs at Whole Foods.

Intuitively we all know that nothing operates most efficiently at full throttle. Is it any wonder that a food system predicated on faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper would create an ignorant, duplicitous, harried, obese citizenry? A culture's people carry in their heads and physiques the manifestation of the food system's objectives.

Every time we eat, we participate in farming.