Quotes About Sustainability

We want our communities to know what real food is.

Whether you're a banker or a botanist - the economic benefits of a clean energy revolution are compelling.

I've tried to approach environmentalism the same way I do my climbing: by setting small, concrete goals that build on each other.

There is no conflict between a better meal and a better world.

Really connect to food and know what you're eating.

Connecticut has long been a leader on addressing climate change.

Ecology and economy are becoming inextricably entwined, and the world is becoming more conscious of this fact.

My dad is very environmentally conscious, and so I've always been close to nature.

There is a belief, at least on the part of the American people, that they can borrow money forever without consequence.

Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.

I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.

If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.

Where I live, I am surrounded by fresh, organic food, so I eat really well.

The whole basis of conserving is not about nature - it is about people. If we don't look after the people surrounding the place, and if they don't have the value of preserving it in their pockets, then they are not going to preserve it.

I believe business has to do well and that the surrounding communities do well.

I guess over the course of time, I started to open up to a lot of the issues surrounding the oceans. From my personal experience, being out in the water and seeing plastics floating around and thinking they are jellyfish and realizing they're plastic bags. I'm always that guy that will take it into the shore.

Protecting our Great Lakes and conserving this resource for the next generation is critical both for surrounding communities and our planet as a whole.

I'm really interested in harvesting surplus energy, energy that surrounds but we never really use.

My architecture is the architecture of survival.

Safeguarding our common home is not only essential to protecting endangered species and preserving old-growth forests, it is also paramount to ending poverty, fighting injustice, and protecting the long-term survival of humankind and of our faith.

For too long, the world has been focused on short-term growth and development at the expense of our long-term survival as we have depleted our natural resources at historically reckless rates.

If our biological imperative is to pass our genes to the next generation, our moral imperative has to be to try, before we become corpses, to leave them a planet they can survive on.

We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources.

I don't think the planet can survive people. It's not the other way around. I don't think the planet can survive.