Quotes About Sustainability

...it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say, a twenty-five-year period.

Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.

The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.

Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal.

Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal.

My goal is to leave this planet with the biggest carbon footprint I can possibly leave.

My goal involves a hammock, a vegetable patch, and a solar-powered house. And I hope to eventually get there.

The goal is to provide analytical tools that will last students a lifetime

I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.

The goal should be to build a sustainable lifestyle business that does good for employees and customers - and that steadily builds wealth.

The annual output of carbon emissions is 25 billion tonnes and Global Cool's goal is to reduce it by one billion tonnes a year.

And as we [ the Church] move towards setting new (United Nations') sustainable development goals, we also understand that one of our key priorities is improving social inclusion.

That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible.

The goal of mass transit is to convince people to abandon their cars, which feature such enticing accessories as CD players and elbow room.

Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.

In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.

I have learned from an early age to abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach him how to fish and you get rid of him all weekend.

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

Friendship is like milking a cow. If you milk too often, you won't get much milk. If you don't milk enough, the milk is sour and the cow is soar. But if you milk regularly, the milk is sweet, plentiful, and the cow is happy.

The less you take from the land, the less you owe in return.

Tek kad sasje?ete posljednje drvo, tek kad zatrujete posljednju rijeku, tek kad upecate posljednju ribu, tek tada ?ete saznati da se novac ne može jesti." Proro?anstvo Cree Indijanaca

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

It is an almost overpowering effort to be just, informed, sane and strong when you are worried about a roof over your head, money for food, for the children's shoes, for coal, for a little fun, worried and harassed by the daily unending problem of living. But it is an effort that must be made, for lasting peace is not going to come of itself, nor cheaply, nor due to someone else.