Graciousness, courtesy, compassion-this is hesed. Hesed is a quality that extends even to the animals and the land. The sabbath rest principle… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“I was struck by the fact that for Joel abjuring agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals is not so much a goal of his farming,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
If you go from the USA - which, relative to the rest of the world, is in pretty good shape in terms… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
“Abstractionism exacerbated the problem but sustainability, if intelligently conceived, could heal the rift between garden, landscape and urban design. Absolute sustainability is… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
If humanity today succeeds in combining the new scientific capacities with a strong ethical dimension, it will certainly be able to promote… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
My primary early interest was in marketing and my aim was to improve its theories, methods and tools. Early on I pressed… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
In 'The General Strike,' we celebrate those who bring a new vision for the world to the table. People who stand for… — Justin Sane Copy Share Image
Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am… — Burton Richter Copy Share Image
Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
I think we have powerful role-models among us in the American West. Certainly the Hopis, a timeless civilization that understands sustainability and… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Now comes the threat of climate crisis - a threat that is real, rising, imminent, and universal. Once again, it is the… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“In trying to make sense of this pessimism, Ridley, like Kahneman, sees a combination of cognitive biases and evolutionary psychology as the… — Peter H. Diamandis Copy Share Image
Transparency, accountability and sustainability have become the slogans of the market leaders. Companies carry out environmental and social audits to court the… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
The reason that Google was such a success is because they were the first ones to take advantage of the self-organizing properties… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
Many of our partners are here and this is where the world's expertise on environment and the wider sustainability agenda often and… — Achim Steiner Copy Share Image
We are taught to reinvent ourselves all the time. And nature is teaching us. What is necessary for us to do to… — Horst Rechelbacher Copy Share Image
I think we have reached a stage now where we need to find solutions to economic injustice in the same place and… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
But the improvements will happen faster and last longer if we can channel market forces, including innovation that's tailored to the needs… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint decisions after pondering responsibly… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Several groups have information evaluating seafood sustainability. I wrote the first such guide, and seafood pocket-guides and detailed evaluations of different seafoods… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
Capitalism rules worldwide, and a society whose economic fabric depends on constant growth requires that its citizens have ever-expanding needs and wants...… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
We know what we have to do. And we know how to do it. If we fail to convert our self-destructing economy… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
When we talk about global crisis, or a crisis of humanity, we cannot blame a few politicians, a few fanatics, or a… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Although population and consumption are societal issues, technology is the business of business. If economic activity must increase tenfold over what it… — Stuart L. Hart Copy Share Image
In the past we could afford a long gestation period before undertaking major environmental policy initiatives. Today the time for a well-planned… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“A sacred way of life connects us to the people and places around us. That means that a sacred economy must be… — Juliana Birnbaum Fox Copy Share Image
“To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The planetary emergency unfolding around us is, first and foremost...a crisis of thought, values, perceptions, ideas and judgments. In other words, it… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
If sustainability is going to take hold in the corporate sector in a big way - and we need it to -… — Paul Gilding Copy Share Image
I think that when you start your own business you have to be very clear on what you're passionate about and what… — Omar Samra Copy Share Image
We do not need to invent sustainable human communities. We can learn from societies that have lived sustainably for centuries. We can… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
Businesses must reconnect company success with social progress. Shared value is not social responsibility, philanthropy, or even sustainability, but a new way… — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
... placing economic activity in the context of the whole earth requires attention to the question of scale. Bigger is obviously not… — John B. Cobb Copy Share Image
To achieve true sustainability, we must reduce our "garbage index" - that which we permanently throw away into the environment that will… — David Korten Copy Share Image
The creative process ignites our imagination, and I believe that that same imagination is what will propel us forward with issues of… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
We have reached a point where the value we do add to our economy is now being outweighed by the value we… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
There is at the moment in the world a battle going on between those who are pursuing materialistic paths-globalizers of economic growth… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
