Best Sustainability Words
140 Sustainability quotes by 114 unique authors
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More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issues of sustainability, environmental responsibility, ethics, and compliance.
— Simon Mainwaring
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The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping…
— Maurice Strong
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We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can…
— Paul Newman
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To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way around it. We can talk all we…
— Derrick Jensen
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Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.
— Terence McKenna
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We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.
— Derrick Jensen
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People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.
— Ha-Joon Chang
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Agricultural sustainability doesn't depend on agritechnology. To believe it does is to put the emphasis on the wrong bit of 'agriculture.' What sustainability depends on…
— Raj Patel
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There is at the moment in the world a battle going on between those who are pursuing materialistic paths-globalizers of economic growth and those hell-bent…
— Satish Kumar
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Genomic science, as the newest frontier in scholarly research, is throwing open the door to a revolutionary way of approaching our health, the health and…
— John Sharp
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Several groups have information evaluating seafood sustainability. I wrote the first such guide, and seafood pocket-guides and detailed evaluations of different seafoods are available for…
— Carl Safina
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I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.
— Edward Burtynsky
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To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is…
— Brene Brown
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My main issue is sustainability of the Earth, and protection of those animals and people who dwell here.
— Lynda Resnick
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If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.
— Jaime Lerner
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There are three major issues now that are becoming important, not only for cities, but for all mankind: Mobility, sustainability - which is linked to…
— Jaime Lerner
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With increasing fervor since the 1980s, sustainability has been the watchword of scientists, environmental activists, and indeed all those concerned about the complex, fragile systems…
— Jamais Cascio
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Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water…
— Jamais Cascio
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A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive…
— Steven Pinker
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I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. That was it. And because…
— Alice Waters
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Transparency, accountability and sustainability have become the slogans of the market leaders. Companies carry out environmental and social audits to court the consumer, and even…
— Noreena Hertz
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Big companies are reliant on institutional investors on a punishing schedule which leads to ruthless behaviour. This form of capitalism with this structure and incentives…
— Tim Jackson
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Forcing companies to recruit away from the golf course might lead to the appointment of more women from NGOs and academia and medicine, all of…
— Noreena Hertz
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Sustainability, ensuring the future of life on Earth, is an infinite game, the endless expression of generosity on behalf of all.
— Paul Hawken
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114 authors contributed a total of 140 Sustainability Quotes, led by these top contributors: