Quotes About Sustainability

When you pick up a House of Marley product, it's not just about the music; it's also about how it's created.

Nature rarely wastes a winning strategy.

the trend for rewilding our cities is growing. It's positive, it enlightens, it's widespread, and it helps. We need to retrofit and reimagine cities as planet-friendly citadels. They're our hives and reefs. Sea mussels aren't the only animals living in individual shells that are glued together.

What sort of stewards of the future planet will today's digital children be?

Today, instead of adapting to the natural world in which we live, we've created a human environment in which we've embedded the natural world.

The left also wants to swamp the country with illegals, seeking to make them dependent on the government, so that if they ever get amnesty and can vote, they will vote for the party that sneaked them through and provided them with a steady, if meager, sustenance.

Cars, with their air conditioning, windows, sound systems, and great speed, keep us isolated from our environment... Self-propulsion, such as biking, walking, canoeing, puts us in touch with the land below and the world around us.

People can't help other people if they have too many of their own problems. They can't do what's right for the planet if they can't do what's right for themselves.

Consume or die. That's the mandate of the culture. And it all ends up in the dump. We make stupendous amounts of garbage, then we react to it, not only technologically but in our hearts and minds. We let it shape us. We let it control our thinking. Garbage comes first, then we build a system to deal with it.

Whiz Co was a firm with an inside track to the future. The Future of Waste.

Food delights us, food unites us, food embodies the soil, the sea and the weather, the farmer's sweat and the fisherman's toil.

In fact, soon billions of smart things in the physical world will be sensing, responding, communicating, buying their own electricity and sharing important data, doing everything

Quisiéramos que las finanzas dejaran de ser una máquina de hacer dinero típica de la era industrial y se convirtieran en una plataforma de prosperidad.

business that makes and sells durable goods faces a problem: As soon as everyone who wants the product has it, then there is no need for more.

Alexander speculates that no more than 9 percent of the land should be devoted to parking, and most pedestrians probably do feel the less parking, the better. Many

Our trucks run on natural gas.

Creating sales may not be the main reason you are in business, but it is the main reason you will stay in business.

operate your day-to-day business as if bad times are always here," which is a great precaution.

I know you're tired of hearing me say this, Guido, but I think plastic bottles are wrong, even though they're certainly not criminal. Though," she quickly added, "I think they will be within a few years. If we have any sense, that is.

This was extraordinary, as Mrs. Fountain was so cheap she washed out her old tinfoil to roll in a ball and use again

Fortunately, ideas already exist for how to achieve every aspect of deconsumer society that appears in this book. Lifespan labeling can encourage product durability: new tax regimes and regulations can favour repair over disposability, job-sharing programs and shorter work days or work weeks can keep people employed in a slower, smaller economy. Redistribution of wealth can reverse income inequality, or prevent it from worsening in a lower-consuming world.

The financial and social stability of every industrialized country seems to be founded on the expectation of an ever-expanding market for mass production,

the consumer dilemma made piercingly clear: our economies are driven by consumption, yet consumption drives our carbon emissions.

We can't stop shopping, we must stop shopping. It isn't only that consumption is distorting the climate, felling the forests, cluttering out lives, filling our heads with a throwaway mindset, even stealing the stars from the night sky. The worst is that it leaves us with no idea of what else to do, no belief that things can be different. Whichever way we go, it leaves us doomed.