“Sustainability requires that every community meet the needs of all its members (including plants and animals), present and future, without compromising the… — Michael H. Shuman Copy Share Image
Everyone makes a difference. Someone who does something for others makes a big and good difference. A person who has no self-interest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nuclear man is the man who realizes that his creative powers hold the potential for self-destruction. He sees that in this nuclear… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
It is much easier to make intellectual messes than it is to clarify complicated issues, especially when real solutions would challenge the… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
It was so important to me to include a sustainable option within my Regatta collection - the brand is known for its… — Rochelle Humes Copy Share Image
If you don't try to generate more revenues through tax reform, if you don't ask, you know, the most fortunate Americans to… — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
The question is...whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The cost reductions for renewable energy continue downward in a very dramatic way. We're in the early stages of a sustainability revolution… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
It is so important not to let ourselves off the hook or to become apathetic or cynical by telling ourselves that nothing… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
People of conscience in our leadership in Washington have been scared off by the right and the fossil fuel lobbies. They won't… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
The real work of planet-saving will be small, humble, and humbling, and (insofar as it involves love) pleasing and rewarding. Its jobs… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I actually believe 'Sustainability ', as a concept, is one of the arteries leading to the heart of so many of our… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
We [H&M] believe that growth, profit and sustainability are not contradictory. Our ambition is to be a fair and profitable company, because… — Karl-Johan Persson Copy Share Image
“Of course, chaos can lead to failure and extinction. But so can order. Far more nations, people, and ideas die of atrophy… — John Ikerd Copy Share Image
The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife. To utilize them… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Conservation is sometimes perceived as stopping everything cold, as holding whooping cranes in higher esteem than people. It is up to science… — Thomas Lovejoy Copy Share Image
I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Sustainability is a new idea to many people, and many find it hard to understand. But all over the world there are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sustainability goes across everything I do with Adidas and everything I do with my own house, so the Olympic kit is no… — Stella McCartney Copy Share Image
“A world that confuses luxury with success, has absolutely zero understanding of the human condition. That's why they idolize rich and filthy… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire… — Pope Benedict XVI 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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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