Quotes About Sustainability

It's important for people of color to link up with issues around globalization, food security, health, the environment.

As we've focused more on our food and where it comes from, people now have greater awareness of what's being put onto our food, pesticides, labeling issues, and consumer health.

Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal.

I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.

There are 1.3 billion people today who have no access to electricity. Many of them rely on kerosene lanterns for light, but kerosene is both expensive and hazardous to the health.

Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land.

My focus is not merely a beautiful city, but a city that's made beautiful on the parameters of good health and cleanliness

It doesn't matter is you call it 'Obama-care' or 'Elvis Presley care' or 'I-don't-care care.' It cannot sustain itself in its present form.

Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.

We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty and send children to school and provide health.

Everybody acknowledges that the current path we're on is unsustainable, not just for the people who don't have health insurance but for those who do.

The securest guarantee of the long-term good health of both farmland and city is, I believe, locally produced food.

People are becoming more environmentally aware and caring more for animals and really wanting to improve their health.

The present system is unsustainable. The only question is whether we will master the change or it will master us.

A lot of people do not think of forests as a health issue, but we have found out that is where our clean water comes from, from the forests.

The natural resources we've depended on, if the places where they exist are not stable, our own livelihood and our health is put at risk.

I've always been interested in the industrialization of our food it's been an issue for me from an environmental and animal rights and human health perspective.

Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.

Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more.

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

I always try to say, 'If you want to help the environment, try to do just two things. One, use less of your car. Second, separate your garbage.'

Whatever help we may want from the international community now or in the future, we want to make sure that this help is tailored to help our people to help themselves.

I hope that energy-efficient LED light bulbs will help reduce energy use and lower the cost of lighting worldwide.

Wouldn't it help Americans more, in the long run, if we were forced to accept some responsibility for the environmental wreckage we prefer to assume is totally out of our control?