Quotes About Sustainability

rocket mass heater, a homemade furnace so efficient that you can hold your open palm over the chimney. There's no heat or smoke or pollution because everything gets burned. Whereas conventional furnaces gobble valuable resources like wood or gas, only to create waste in the form of smoke and escaped carbon, these devices transform waste into a valuable resource: heat.

at the heart of permaculture lay a gorgeously empathetic view of human nature: people aren't inherently wasteful and greedy, but fall into those patterns because of the temptations of the modern world.

The greatest conspiracy on the planet is that we need to oppress, kill, and pollute in order to get our needs met

find a balance between building a new world and helping to save the existing one.

Ethan developed an ethos that over the years he whittled to a one-line mantra: I don't want my freedom, comfort, and mobility to require killing, polluting, and exploiting.

Let me be clear: I felt bad about the state of the planet, and I was willing to pay extra if it supported an actual farmer instead of the bovine gulag.

hadn't the agrarian Wendell Berry written, "How could we divorce ourselves completely and yet responsibly from the technologies and powers that are destroying our planet? The answer is not yet thinkable.

the "environment" is not a place we vacation to gaze at warblers, but our home, the one and only garden that feeds us. In

Here's where my pastoral fantasy ran aground: the pound of organic butter cost six dollars and fifty cents. The ceiling for buying my way into grace was about five bucks.

I don't want my freedom, comfort, and mobility to require killing, polluting, and exploiting.

My shower at home would then be for weekends only and would probably only need to be cleaned every few months.

Our livelihood is intimately tied to the food we eat, water we drink and places where we recreate. That's why we have to promote responsibility and conservation when it comes to our natural resources.

You're supposed to eat the cows. They're great big lumbering stupid things - they'd be everywhere if we didn't eat them.

Ecology is often confused with environmentalism, while in fact, environmentalism often leaves out the fact that people, too, can be a legitimate part of an ecosystem.

Trains are not any more energy efficient than the average automobile, with both getting about 48 passenger miles to the gallon.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't driving around on a bus and having a campfire kind of adding to the environment problem?

Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos.

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

Lovely, not only did the truck look like it was on its last leg, it was going to take the environment with it.

Since the cruel killing of cows and other animal have commenced, I have anxiety for the future generation.

Geography is the subject which holds the key to our future

We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.

We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!

Biofuels are the future of energy in this nation and around the world