Consumption Quote by Susan Freinkel

If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn…

— David Suzuki

“When Al Gore urges the citizenry to sacrifice their plastic shopping bags, their air-conditioning, their extraneous travel, the agnostics grumble that human activity accounts…

— Steven D. Levitt

Arguably, it might prompt consumers to think about their consumption, with paper straws and reusable grocery bags and shared urban bicycles acting as a…

— Annie Lowrey

I collect a lot of eco-friendly shopping bags that serve to separate my shoes other and other small stuff in my luggage.

— Liu Wen

Putting even one thing in your shopping basket that's locally produced or organic makes all the difference. It's a vote for the future, for…

— Sheherazade Goldsmith

“business writer Polly LaBarre notes, “The United States spends more on trash bags than ninety other countries spend on everything.”

— Daniel H. Pink

Frugality is good for the environment. We hurt the environment every time we throw out something that could still be used.

— Stephen Ramjewan

Supermarkets didn't even want to talk to me about how much food they were wasting. I'd been round the back. I'd seen bins full…

— Tristram Stuart

If food was no longer obliged to make intercontinental journeys, but stayed part of a system in which it can be consumed over short…

— Carlo Petrini

“Reducing or eliminating the consumption of animal products is one of the most powerful ways we can reduce our impact on the environment.”

— Hope Bohanec

Although reducing human emissions to the atmosphere is undoubtedly of critical importance, as are any and all measures to reduce the human environmental "footprint",…

— Chris Rapley

Above all, we should question the consumer ethic, which uses up non-renewable resources, creates inequality and injustice, generates pollution, destroys other species and upsets…

— Peter Marshall