Sustainability Practices Quotes

In my lifetime, I want to see humanity start being conscious of our waste, the things we buy, and how we can reuse and recycle things. I want people to live harmoniously with our planet. I hope everybody wakes up and appreciates life.

I think any opportunity you have to be green, whether it's in business or in everyday life, you should take it.

[Professional accountants ] should be encouraging companies to enhance their green credentials by switching to renewables, and to respect core labor standards and human rights.

The world can, in effect, get along without natural resources, so exhaustion is just an event, not a catastrophe.

I had spent 10 days of my life digging for garbage.

I love it when people yell at me about the environment and then I tell 'em I'm burning 90% cleaner than them.

Regulatory failings mean that the cost of breaking the law is far below that of obeying it - businesses are happier to pay fines than to control pollution.

Flue gas extraction is really, really hard to do. It's not that we can't do it - just not at a cost that anyone will bear.

As long as we are graceful, appreciative lodgers, the earth remains healthy and wondrous.

Teaching children how to be eco-friendly at preschool age is just so obvious and so fantastic. It creates habits that they get into for a lifetime and then they put pressure on their parents.

I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole.

My daughter, the one who lives nearby, is raising her children to be very much aware. We went on a nature walk on Monday; I'm learning so much from her.

A vegan riding a hummer contributes less to greenhouse gas emissions than a meat eater riding a bicycle.

We don't have a right to ask whether we're going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what's the right thing to do? What does this earth require of us if we want to continue to live on it?

We're starting with our own carbon footprint. Not nothing. But much of what we're doing is already, or soon will be, little more than the standard way of doing business. We can do something that's unique, different from just any other company. We can set an example, and we can reach our audiences. Our audience's carbon footprint is 10,000 times bigger than ours... That's the carbon footprint we want to conquer.

Obviously, when I learn about something new that I can do in my everyday life that makes a whole lot of sense and can help the environment, I do it. Eventually, it just becomes second nature. If we all begin to learn from one another and share some of the things we do, we just might be able to affect the world for the better through these little rituals. In a curious way, this would be a great wave of awareness: doing the right thing without being told to or having to think why.

Mediocre design provably wastes the world's resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important.

We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us.

The two most important things to remember in business are: to be aware of the consequential impact on ecology, and a caring relationship between employer and employee.

Throughout history, human exploitation of the earth has produced this progression: colonize-destroy-move on.

Somebody who eats twice as much factory-farmed products as he or she needs to is clearly doing twice as much damage to the planet. From a utilitarian point of view, that's twice as bad.

Sustainability has become an ornament.

The only true and effective "operator's manual for spaceship earth" is not a book that any human will ever write; it is hundreds of thousands of local cultures.

We must plant trees, grow gardens instead of lawns, ride bicycles when we can and support responsible local businesses over big brands.

We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we need.