First of all, [Buckminster Fuller's] identification of the problems that are all that much more pertinent, all that much more pressing in… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
My kids that's their backyard. I think when they're adults, their memories will be mostly of spending time at beach, the exploration,… — Gabrielle Reece Copy Share Image
To put it bluntly, we now need to reverse course. We need more highly skilled small farmers in more places all across… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The basic building block of peace and security for all peoples is economic and social security, anchored in sustainable development. It is… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
The Captains of Industry have always counseled the rest of us "to be realistic." Let us, therefore, be realistic. Is it realistic… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
As a nation, this is the moment to start seriously investing our time, energy and resources into proven methods of reducing violence,… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
During the last five years, those four advantages-costs, products, people, goodwill-have been the salvation of Interface during a recession that saw our… — Ray Anderson Copy Share Image
Brian Walker and David Salt have written a thoughtful and powerful book to help resource users and managers put resilience thinking into… — Elinor Ostrom Copy Share Image
That's not a utopian vision. It is a set of ideas that we think are important to discuss. Those ideas largely have… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Our vision of interconnectedness resonates with new networks of world citizens in nongovernmental organizations linking from numberless centers of energy, expressing the… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of stealing it. We can either… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
For three decades and longer we have been developing the ideas, science, and technological wherewithal to build a sustainable society. The public… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The goods of creation belong to humanity as a whole. Yet the current pace of environmental exploitation is seriously endangering the supply… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
We live in a world where there are a hell of a lot of new inputs that need to be factored in… — Stuart Rose Copy Share Image
I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. That was… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
Humanity today is rightly concerned about the ecological balance of tomorrow. It is important for assessments in this regard to be carried… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons… — Suquamish Chief Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
The absolute desire of 'having more' encourages the selfishness that destroys communal bonds among the children of God. It does so because… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
“Well, it's been obvious for centuries that capitalism is going to self-destruct: that's just inherent in the logic of system―because to the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The question is wholly other, deeper and equally relevant to all: whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
As Joanna Macy reminds us, "Information by itself can increase resistance [to engagement], deepening the sense of apathy and powerlessness." Stories about… — Paul Rogat Loeb Copy Share Image
I want to be really proactive in working with the progressive business community in Australia and also reaching out to rural and… — Christine Milne Copy Share Image
“One of the most important things about permaculture is that it is founded on a series of principles that can be applied… — Juliana Birnbaum Fox Copy Share Image
The sustainability revolution will be organic. It will arise from the visions, insights, experiments and actions of billions of people. The burden… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
For nearly 11 years, now, we have been on this mission; we call it, "climbing Mt. Sustainability", a mountain higher than Everest,… — Ray Anderson Copy Share Image
Every company that manufactures something is causing some damage either to the soil or water or air. Most companies treat these as… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
I report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
But we can do nothing for the human future that we will not do for the human present. For the amelioration of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The path to relative economic, social and ecological sustainability is guaranteed to be littered with failures of every nature and scale. If… — John Elkington Copy Share Image
“A photograph of a disposable diaper floating in the arctic miles away from human habitat fueled my daily determination to save at… — Gloria Ng Copy Share Image
We are challenged to develop a world perspective. No individual can live alone, no nation can live alone, and anyone who feels… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“When we flood our creative problem-solving mind with the endorphins of gratitude, we are open to receiving the spectacular solutions that are… — Natalie Pace Copy Share Image
We recognize that our progress as a species does not have to be defined in terms of wealth or material and physical… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
“Be wary! Commercializing who you are may pave the way for a profound downfall. When you reduce your true essence to a… — Erick "The Black Sheep" G Copy Share Image
“It’s incredible,” he says, “this moaning pessimism, this knee-jerk, things-are-going-downhill reaction from people living amid luxury and security that their ancestors would… — Peter H. Diamandis Copy Share Image
A person who has been seduced by the consumer value system, whose identity is dissolved in an amalgam of the accouterments trappings… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Sara Scherr and Jeff McNeely have given us a thoughtful, sensible book about a topic of great importance to the world. There… — Ismail Serageldin Copy Share Image
The Nuffield report suggests that there is a moral imperative for investment into GM crop research in developing countries. But the moral… — Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher Copy Share Image
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