Quotes About Sustainability

How about the Weston A. Price Foundation's Nourishing Traditions? Oh, books, maybe you read books. Okay, how about Sir Albert Howard's An Agricultural Testament? Or perhaps Rodale's Complete Book of Composting? Never heard of them? Where have you been, under a rock?

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Consider that about 2 calories of fossil-fuel energy are required to cultivate 1 calorie of starchy vegetable food energy; with beef, the ratio can be as high as 80 to 1.

Page: Don't keep the world on tenterhooks, Tom! Out with it! What's the best thing we can do to ensure a long, happy, healthy future for mankind? Grey: We can just about restore the balance of the ecology, the biosphere, and so on-in other words we can live within our means instead of on an unrepayable overdraft, as we've been doing for the past half century-if we exterminate the two hundred million most extravagant and wasteful of our species. Page: Follow that if you can, Mr. President.

Put your money to work. If you know someone with the vision to do something really great—something that will positively impact the lives of others—provide resources for him to accomplish it. Put your money to work for something that will outlive you.

Author Noel M. Tichy says, "The ultimate test for a leader is not whether he or she makes smart decisions and takes decisive action, but whether he or she teaches others to be leaders and builds an organization that can sustain its success even when he or she is not around.

I want to throw all my friends on water, to let me know which plastics will float.

Friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil - but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

Leave this world a little better than you found it.

If you do it right, it will last forever.

To eliminate the concept of waste means to design things-products, packaging, and systems-from the very beginning on the understanding that waste does not exist.

If design is to be ecologically responsible, it must be independent of concern for the gross national product.

You don't filter smokestacks or water. Instead, you put the filter in your head and design the problem out of existence.

Design isn't crafting a beautiful, textured button with breathtaking animation. It's figuring out if there's a way to get rid of the button altogether.

It should look as if it has always been like that, as if Nature had made it that way. That's good design.

The principal and only way to make an heirloom product is to design something that people will need not just this year, but for the next 50 or 100 years.

I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.

If we do not design policies to halt, and then reverse population growth, Nature by default will soon exact a most punishing solution

If you design communities for automobiles, you get more automobiles. If you design them for people, you get walkable, livable communities.

A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States… [we] must design a stable, low-consumption economy.

No architect should design buildings that import a huge amount of energy.

In many respects, designing heirloom products means saying no to designing consumer crap that you know will not last very long.

Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.