Quotes About Sustainability

I think that if there's some innovative entrepreneurs out there who can help teach people how they can cost-effectively help themselves and their planet, I think everybody would be for it. That's going to be the challenge - figuring a way to get the marketplace and commerce to teach us consumers another way.

Planet Earth is far more resilient than humans and will certainly outlive us.

We treat a planet at crisis point as an externality that can be shunted into a future generation. We continue to act as if we had the natural resources of several planets, not one.

From a planning perspective, economic degradation begets environmental degradation, which begets social degradation.

We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.

Food justice must be incorporated into the city's long term and big picture planning efforts.

Climate change and dependence on foreign oil are problems that won't go away on their own. Tabling plans to deal with them doesn't make it easier for companies to plan and invest; it makes it harder.

British Columbia's got one of the most ambitious climate change plans in North America.

I'm a plant eater.

'Bloom' is basically the idea that all flesh is grass, and that we can look at natural plant growth and organic material as outgrowths of the Earth.

The closing of ash basins is really part of decommissioning a coal plant.

Anytime we make additional investment in a coal plant, we are really challenging whether that investment is economic.

We must continue as in millennia past, nourishing the future as we feed ourselves and, each year, plant only the very best of what we have collectively engineered.

Under the guidance of the former President of India, APJ Abdul Kalam, I have been doing this green initiative. My aim is to plant 1 crore sapling in Tamil Nadu.

Think realistically with what you're going to eat - don't plant 200 radishes!

When I was growing up on our 53-acre dairy farm, we were obsessed with food; it was the center of our lives. We planted it, grew it, harvested it, peeled it, cooked it, served it, consumed it - endlessly, day after day, season after season.

I got busy with planting saplings after I started the Green Globe initiative.

If I had my dream, we'd all be eating more plants and less garbage.

The photosynthesis we see with plants is not very efficient. Algaes are more efficient.

Coal is cheap, but up to what extent are we going to allow coal plants to operate?

Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.

When most people talk about biofuels, they talk about using oils or grease from plants.

I think humans have to learn a new way of dwelling on this earth. A way of living with their companions: animals, plants and fish.

I can never waste water. If I cannot drink it I will use it to water the plants and I will never waste food. If it is inedible it goes on the compost heap.