Quotes About Sustainability

Vote for me and I will ensure that everyone gets enough to eat and a place to stay.

The populists are right in one key area: voters want jobs and equitable growth, and can hardly be faulted for that. The challenge is to find a more inclusive growth trajectory that can be sustained economically, ecologically, and politically.

Water is truly the seed of life.

We have very strong environmental laws in the United States and elsewhere around the world. The problem is that they're seldom enforced.

It's not a question of McDonald's vanishing from the face of the earth. It's a question of these companies assuming some more responsibility for what they're selling.

People should look at building long-term businesses, not just selling a business.

When I'm in London, I get a veggie-box sent up every week, with the latest pickings.

I do my very best to avoid shark fin.

We can, and must, shift to an economy in which 100% of our electricity is generated renewably.

We want to end poverty and protect our environment. But we think the most efficient way of achieving that is to change the way a generation of young people is educated. That's how you'll shift the world.

If I shoot it, I'm gonna eat it.

Alicia Silverstone

Too many companies are running their business into the ground, I would argue, by being myopically short-term focused on the shareholder.

I want to show people that environmentalism can be fun!

To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.

It truly seems to me that there is some kind of shift happening towards ecological awareness - not just in terms of PR for the science.

We're not going to protect the Earth the way we need to protect it if we don't stop making so many babies.

This is the kind of balance people expect: both environment and the economy - not one or the other.

If everyone wants to eat like people in Bangladesh, then we would have food coming out of everybody's ears.

If nature were a bank, they would have already rescued it.

For the lakhs living along its banks, the Aghanashini has given people life and livelihoods.

I'd be quite happy if cars were banned from central London. Why are we not using little tuk-tuks rather than big black cabs?

We have to base architecture on the environment.

It rests in the hands of the common person as well as those with the power to shape humanity's course toward a world where every child, woman and man's most basic needs are met.