Quotes About Sustainability

How do we love all children, of all species, of all time?

William McDonough

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valuable technical nutrients—cars, televisions, carpeting, computers, and refrigerators, for

Dow Chemical has experimented with this concept in Europe, and DuPont is taking up this idea vigorously.

Design is the first signal of human intention. When we look at plastics in our environment, if it's our intention to do these things then we must question our intentions. If it's not our intention, then what's our plan? The question becomes how we can behave in a way that works.

How do we love all children, of all species, FOR all time?" ? William McDonough

Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, makes complex sugars and foods, changes colors with the seasons, and self-replicates. and then why don't we knock that down and write on it?

Swiss textile mill Röhner. We

The idea that commons can set and enforce limits on usage also seems improbable because it rejects the idea of humans having unbounded appetites. Ostrom

A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.

Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.

Ultimately, organizations run through directive approaches fail. They might perform in the very short term, but they can never sustain it. Or they drive people away; they don't like working where they are treated like idiots.

We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.

Polite conversationalists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.

This island of Earth of ours is finite in resources, including wilderness- particularly wilderness. The dwindling worldwide reservoir of wild lands must be the concern of everyone, but especially of those of us who have been privileged to experience wildness, and thus learn its value to the individual human soul and to the spirit of mankind.

Thoreau asked long ago, "What's the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?" We

In the words of Enrique Peñalosa, who instituted bike and pedestrian streets and rapid transit in Bogotá when he was mayor, if a bike lane isn't safe for an eight-year-old child, it isn't really a bike lane.

Paradoxically, the flows of energy that sustain complex things (including you and me) are helping entropy with its bleak task of slowly breaking down all forms of order and structure.

Innovation ensured that each cycle normally reached a higher level than its predecessor, but innovation was normally too slow to prevent an eventual collapse within each cycle, as populations outstripped available resources.

There is a special feeling of knowing that nothing must die for me to thrive.

Since causing massive unnecessary harm is wrong if anything is wrong, the judgement that factory farming is an indefensible institution seems inescapable.

I drive an electric car.