If the material consumption of a fraction of humanity is already harming the planet, is there an alternative path that enables all… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
“The buyers of useless things are wiser than is commonly supposed--they buy little dreams. They become children in the act of acquisition.… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Conserving energy and thus saving money, reducing consumption of unnecessary products and packaging and shifting to a clean-energy economy would likely hurt… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Eating anything that is not natural is likely going to make you fat!” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
The New World Order is a world that has a supernational authority to regulate world commerce and industry; an international organization that… — Willy Brandt Copy Share Image
The transformation of capitalism is unstoppable because we need limits on resources for humans to survive. — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
“Have I mentioned the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, and the collapse of a section of the Bay Bridge, or the Oakland… — Robert Appelbaum Copy Share Image
The slogan used to be 'Populate or perish'. We can now see that it is more like 'Populate and perish'. A sustainable… — Ian Lowe Copy Share Image
In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I refuse to make films where the audience comes for consumption. I make films where you know you are also part of… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
As the United States chains itself down with greater debt, China is building relationships across the globe to bolster its trade, its… — Reince Priebus Copy Share Image
“Wherever the shadow of economic growth touches us, we are left useless unless employed on a job or engaged in consumption...We lose… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
The bottom line in 2007 is that enrollment costs are going up substantially, drug coverage is declining and the brand name coverage… — David J. C. MacKay Copy Share Image
Some of the music I listen to is pop. I sing it in the shower - and then for public consumption. — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
The first law of sustainability: population growth and/or growth in the rate of consumption of resources cannot be sustained — Albert Allen Bartlett Copy Share Image
Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal." Even… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Anything to do with any new form of tax, like consumption tax in Japan, carbon tax in Australia, these are big issues… — Najib Razak Copy Share Image
“Modern man is actually close to the picture Huxley describes in his Brave New World : well fed, well clad, satisfied sexually,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The wealthiest 300 people have greater riches than the three billion poorest. The three wealthiest people have greater riches than the 48… — Tony Juniper Copy Share Image
Sugary drinks are blamed for increasing the rates of chronic disease and obesity in America. Yet efforts to reduce their consumption through… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
If we continue to think of ourselves mostly as consumers, it's going to be very hard to bring our environmental troubles under… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
What I think about is what people spend their time on this planet doing. So No.1 is sleep, No.2 is work, and… — Jason Kilar Copy Share Image
