“The more serious about gardening I became, the more dubious lawns seemed. The problem for me was not, as it was for… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
“Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money; the more there… — Peter Joseph Copy Share Image
Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure - but the state… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The people who benefit from this state of affairs have been at pains to convince us that the agricultural practices and policies… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The idea of unlimited growth... needs to be seriously questioned on at least two counts: the availability of basic resources and... the… — Wayne Ellwood Copy Share Image
Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The best innovations - both socially and economically - come from the pursuit of ideals that are noble and timeless: joy, wisdom,… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
“Trust is built in many ways: by creating opportunities to share something of our lives and feelings, by encouraging people to argue… — Juliana Birnbaum Fox Copy Share Image
Technology that pollutes can also cleanse, production that amasses can also distribute justly, on condition that the ethic of respect for life… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Historically the Department of Education hasn't been doing enough to drive the sustainability movement, and today, I promise that we will be… — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
When we conduct agriculture, we are, therefore, altering the ecological arrangement that was responsible for our genesis as a species. I think… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
Because by definition they lack any sense of mutuality or wholeness, our specializations subsist on conflict with one another. The rule is… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
John Wayne Airport is a leader in environmental best practices, and the implementation of an entirely electric fleet of shuttle vehicles is… — Michelle Steel Copy Share Image
Our life as consumers seems light years away from that of our grandparents. But you don't change human nature. Optimism, for me,… — Ed Mayo Copy Share Image
“For all the environmental troubles single-use shopping bags cause, the much greater impacts are in what they contain. reducing the human footprint… — Susan Freinkel Copy Share Image
“I think there has always been a strong crossover between the household- and community-level design in permaculture. From the beginnings of permaculture… — Juliana Birnbaum Fox Copy Share Image
“Joey was surprised that plants could be used to clean water. Then, he had a funny thought. He imagined a dandelion standing… — Ellen J. Lewinberg Copy Share Image
The planetary phase of history has begun, but the future shape of global society remains profoundly uncertain. Though perhaps improbable, a shift… — Paul Raskin Copy Share Image
There would be no call for ecological campaigning had nature not been exploited and abused. We experience the ground now bringing forth… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“Feeling at home anywhere on earth, and a foreigner even in the country where I was born, I consider myself an earthling,… — Yossi Ghinsberg Copy Share Image
For those who believe that ecological disaster will somehow be averted, it must also be clear that, over the next decade or… — Stuart L. Hart Copy Share Image
“If we want to add human interaction to the panorama of our lifescape, the sustainability and the expectancy description of our emotions… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Sustainability is an economic state where the demands placed upon the environment by people and commerce can be met without reducing the… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Yes, the South-becoming always poorer-and the North-becoming always richer ...Richer, too in the resources of weapons with which the superpowers and blocs… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
We need more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic disposal systems, or ecological programmes to comprehend the nature of citizenship,… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
“We begin to make human systems and industries fitting when we recognize that all sustainability (just like all politics) is local. We… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
I'm afraid what we are building today will not have the same impact and sustainability of the architecture of a 100, 500… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
“Another principle that I believe can be justified by scientific evidence so far is that nobody is going to emigrate from this… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people go into filmmaking thinking, "How can I make a career?" And so when they make their… — Andrew Bujalski Copy Share Image
Love in truth-caritas in veritate-is a great challenge for the Church in a world that is becoming progressively and pervasively globalized. The… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the sake of patriotism and the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Ours is certainly not an old culture. Yet in recent decades we've used more energy, destroyed more soil, created more pathogenicity (temporarily… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
If the selection process is right and its members GOOD, then there could be no reason why the collection of the teammates… — Anuj Copy Share Image
Designers must educate the public that design is about strategy, not decoration. However, such attempts are repeatedly undermined by a design world… — David Berman Copy Share Image
Sustainability at Nike means being laser-focused on evolving our business model to deliver profitable growth while leveraging the efficiencies of lean manufacturing,… — Mark Parker Copy Share Image
“To become more aware of this behavioral tendency, we need to observe and acknowledge how sustainable performance is rewarded; find out what… — Ines Garcia Copy Share Image
“There is a deeper point to be made here, however, having to do with the specificity of everything. One of the great… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
I want to think I deserve what I get. I don't want to consider how vastly I am overly rewarded. I don't… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
Don't go to great trouble to optimize something that never should be done at all. Aim to enhance total systems properties, such… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
