From a business perspective, the question related to cities and sustainability is clear and compelling: can you have a healthy company in… — Joel Makower Copy Share Image
When a livestock farmer is willing to "practice complexity"-to choreograph the symbiosis of several different animals, each of which has been allowed… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Criticism of growth arose with the discovery that growth beyond a certain point is destructive of the earth. We are already using… — John B. Cobb Copy Share Image
The destruction of the environment, its improper or selfish use, and the violent hoarding of the Earth's resources cause grievances, conflicts and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
There's a lot of talk about sustainability; being a manufacturer I've seen a lot. You can't really be totally sustainable if you're… — Touker Suleyman Copy Share Image
Wal-Mart, with its legendary focus on customer value in terms of price, is innovating in sustainability. Now, we're beginning to see the… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
“This heated (environmental) debate is fundamentally about numbers. How much energy could each source deliver, at what economic and social cost, and… — David Mackay Copy Share Image
“The American Dietetic Association Task Force identified sustainability as “the capacity of being maintained over the long term in order to meet… — Ruby Parker Puckett Copy Share Image
Not that long ago, the idea of feeding your kid with organic fruit and vegetables or paying attention to sustainability or any… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
If we somehow put a value on species extinction and factor that into our costs that bottom line would look very different.… — Ray Anderson Copy Share Image
To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way around it. We can… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Can we disregard the growing phenomenon of "environmental refugees", people who are forced by the degradation of their natural habitat to forsake… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Positive deviance means doing the right thing for sustainability, despite being surrounded by the wrong institutional structures, the wrong processes and stubbornly… — Sara Parkin Copy Share Image
The language of commerce has been engineered to describe the overt purpose of a thing, but cannot encompass fringe benefits or peripheral… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Respecting the environment does not mean considering material or animal nature more important than man. Rather, it means not selfishly considering nature… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
It is our duty to preserve huge tracts of land in something resembling its native condition. The biological interactions necessary to insure… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
A key part of helping startups is providing them with a G/SCORE that measures a company on the path to sustainability. We… — Chris Shipley Copy Share Image
“Never forget that the key to upholding our values is cultivating a heightened awareness. It sharpens our perception, allowing us to recognize… — Erick "The Black Sheep" G Copy Share Image
This mandate that I seek is about continuity and sustainability against disruption and stagnation, about moving forward versus regressing. We have to… — Najib Razak Copy Share Image
“One of the least meaningful and most overused words in the English language is 'sustainability.' For most Americans, it means something like… — David Owen Copy Share Image
I used to think that my job didn't have anything to do with the environment. Then I realized that my job, as… — Ray Anderson Copy Share Image
What made traditional economies so radically different and so very fundamentally dangerous to Western economies were the traditional principles of prosperity of… — Rebecca Adamson Copy Share Image
Consider the willful scorching of the earth, over-fishing, wasteful hunting, excessive and dangerous recycling of resources, and other similar "injustices" against the… — Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople Copy Share Image
Sustainability has become a religion in architecture - not that there's anything wrong with it - but I think it has to… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
So long as we are under the illusion that we know best what is good for the earth and for ourselves, then… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
To build enormous palaces, to conquer or to mimic nature, to ransack the world in order to gratify the passions of a… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The gradual depletion of the ozone layer and the related "greenhouse effect" has now reached crisis proportions as a consequence of industrial… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
There are millions and millions of species, including organisms most people have never heard of. There is so much that waits to… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Everyone is talking about sustainability and resilience, yet all that knowledge is thrown in the bin. [Lagos is] a unique case, but… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
As more and more people wake up to the fact that further growth does not necessarily bring improvements in quality of life… — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
There can be no solution to the challenge of climate change that is not global. But if we can come together in… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
“When we use these words and we talk about plants having a strategy to do this or wanting this or desiring this,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Reaching a general understanding that sustainability is the ultimate issue will finally bring us face-to-face with the political challenge of forging a… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
Entranced by promises of a material paradise of limitless luxury, humanity has too long ignored the mismatch between the imperatives of our… — David Korten Copy Share Image
The dialogue about sustainability is about a change in the human trajectory that will require us to rethink old assumptions and engage… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
Sustainability requires that we demand enduring quality. Steve Strong has a slide presentation pointing out that much of Oxford was built 800… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary, ... Such caution seems especially warranted with regard… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
A sustainable economy represents nothing less than a higher social order one as concerned with future generations as with our own, and… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Climate change is real, caused by human activity and already devastating our nation and planet. The United States must lead the world… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
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