Quotes About Resources

What leads to a growth - skills, demographics, natural resources, democracy, entrepreneurship - India has in abundant measure.

For practitioners of community development, as in any field, joining a network of like-minded professionals is important for building skills and becoming aware of opportunities and resources.

Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent.

We think there is an ecological problem, but the real problem is irresponsible growth of human population.

There are a lot of other things I could be doing out there, but I love to race. I'm fortunate to have the opportunity, to have the team and to have the resources to be able to do this.

22 million tonnes of such unwanted fish are dumped back in the sea each year, mostly in the form of corpses.

Only twenty-six British universities have total endowments greater than the amount given annually to the Ohio State University football team. I

I read once that it takes 75,000 trees to produce one issue of the Sunday New York Times — and it's well worth every trembling leaf. So what if our grandchildren have no oxygen to breathe? Fuck 'em.

tropical hurricane can release in twenty-four hours as much energy as a rich, medium-sized nation like Britain or France uses in a year.

By 1842, Britain was using two-thirds of all the coal produced in the Western world.

As the economist Herman Daly once put it: "The current national accounting system treats the earth as a business in liquidation.

Just to ease you into a sense of perspective here, Australia is the least wooded continent (Antarctica excluded, of course) and yet it is also the world's largest exporter of woodchips

Farther west, Michigan's seemingly inexhaustible stock of white pine—170 billion board feet of it when the first colonists arrived—shrank by 95 percent in just a century.

We know we have to face hard truths and take strong steps, but we have not done so; instead, we have drifted. And that drifting has eroded our resources, fractured our economy, and shaken our confidence.

Whatever other resources you may have, you can always use your voice and your vote to effect change.

In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future. --Bill Gates (1955-)

The world uses more than 4 billion gallons every day. When you're using any product at that kind of volume, you can't simply stop overnight.

the problem of overgeneration in the summer and undergeneration in the winter.

At Breakthrough Energy, we fund only technologies that could remove at least 500 million tons a year if they're successful and fully implemented. That's roughly 1 percent of global emissions. Technologies that will never exceed 1 percent shouldn't compete for the limited resources we have for getting to zero. There may be other good reasons to pursue them, but significantly reducing emissions won't be one of them.

How much stuff does it take to build and run a power plant? That depends on the type of plant. Nuclear is the most efficient, using much less material per unit of electricity generated than other sources do.

If you could pick just one thing to lower the price of, to reduce poverty, by far you would pick energy.

a 2-degree rise wouldn't simply be 33 percent worse than 1.5; it could be 100 percent worse. Twice as many people would have trouble getting clean water. Corn production in the tropics would go down twice as much.

Most leaders assume that everybody who comes to church knows God's mind on financial matters. But the truth is that many people are absolutely clueless regarding the basic principles of Christian financial management. Leaders and teachers need to educate their congregations before they can expect them to honor God with their money and eventually get excited about resourcing the church.

their husbands probably had ample opportunity and resources to find excitement elsewhere. That's why they invented golfing trips, or so he had been told.