Quotes About Sustainability

Styrofoam and plastic milk jugs are biodegradable! Do you know what isn't biodegradable? Paper!

If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly.

We absolutely need to clean up the plastic that's already in the ocean. It won't go away by itself. But we do also need to make sure that no more plastic enters the oceans in the first place. These things should go hand in hand.

To catch the plastic, act like the plastic.

It's a very strange experience to be four or five days from the closest point of land, and you see more plastic than life.

Cut down on your use of plastic shopping bags because many end up in the ocean.

One of my big pet peeves is single-use plastic bags. I think it's one of the stupidest ideas in the world.

Yes, we absolutely need to eliminate the single-use plastic bag, but we don't have to eliminate the jobs of hardworking Californians to accomplish this goal.

I avoid using plastic bags.

For 60 years man has been putting plastic into the ocean. And from that day onward we're also taking it back out again.

The way the clean-up system works is that we let the plastic come to us, using the ocean currents in our advantage.

We can get rid of all the plastic bags and plastic straws in the world - and we need to - but nothing is going to get better until we can make the people at the top see that there are changes to be made.

What humans aren't good at is trying to consume less, to consume less plastic, to not be lazy.

Truly, the only way to prove that we can rid the oceans of plastic is to actually go out there and deploy the world's first ocean-cleaning system.

Has the smartphone begun to mature, plateau out?

We know the WNBA is not making billions of dollars like the NBA, but we want to be in a place where we don't have to play basketball all year round.

We can't go to courts in China, so we have to find alternate ways, like working with brands to try and create a level playing field by identifying the most obvious polluters.

Our ministry is debt free and we have not had to beg or plead for finances.

If you love animals, please don't eat them.

Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.

There's plenty of juice to keep this economy going.

I get these students who come in and say, I want to help people. I say, people get plenty of help. Why don't you help the planet?

The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But now we are gradually exhausting our fisheries, our topsoil, our water. On top of that, we're coming to the end of world resources.

I think that the Japanese - and I do love Japanese cuisine and adore Japanese food culture - I think that they're going to plow through the entire world's fishing. They're going to eat everything anyways.