Quotes About Sustainability

Good food should be a right not a privilege.

No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.

But things don't necessarily have to be that expensive to be good. As long as they are expensive enough to last.

Business must be a force for good in the world.

I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.

A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment?

It is not good enough to do what the law says. We need to be in the forefront of these [social responsibility] issues.

I probably wouldn't be a good spokesman for an electric car, because I'll still get on a private jet, and one flight on a private jet undoes all my electric-car good deeds.

Sustaining the energy and focus involved in doing a good job I think starts to gets tougher the longer you do it.

I think electric cars can help save Detroit. They reflect good decision-making, and there has been bad decision making in the auto industry for so long, in my view.

Despite their good intentions, today's businesses are missing an opportunity to integrate social responsibility and day-to-day business objectives - to do good and make money simultaneously.

How we treat food is how we treat ourselves. Eating and buying organic means we're committed to a healthier world overall. It's good karma.

Vegetarianism is a good idea.

Nobody trusts the industrial food system to give them good food.

I suppose my biggest concern would be if the planet is going to be in good enough shape for the next generation to have the privileges that we've had.

Even swadeshi, like any other good thing, can be ridden to death if it is made a fetish.

Even people who like the kind of food on offer, are coming to recognize that eating from this food chain is not conducive to good health.

The first step towards solving the omnivore's dilemma is knowledge: eating with full consciousness. When that happens, I have a lot of confidence that people will make good choices.

We believe that business can be a tool for social good.

Screwing business as usual fundamentally recognises that doing good is good for business.

In the 70s and 80s, I made a good living. Have managed my funds carefully, will never have to go out and cadge quarters from the tourists.

The true measure of all our actions is how long the good in them lasts.

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.