Quotes About Sustainability

Wood was the main source of energy in the world until the eighteen-fifties, and it still could be. Roughly a tenth of the annual growth of all the trees on earth could yield alcohol enough to run everything that now uses coal and petroleum—every airplane, every industry, every automobile.

Education and water should be a human right.

Most green-collar jobs are middle-skill jobs. That means they require more education that a high-school diploma, but less than a four-year degree.

I definitely want to focus on economic development, because that is what is needed in the community, as well as education.

If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages.

If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.

Teach a person to think and they'll devise a way to eat for a lifetime

Land is an emotional subject with a farmer in India because it is his only means of income.

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.

I believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction.

Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today

Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

Quite frankly, there is no answer to climate change without substantially, dramatically, increasing the amount of renewable energy in the global energy system.

We must strive to become good ancestors.

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves.

Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves.

Eating is an environmental act.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.