Adventure Quote by Thomas Friedman

So why is a third of our world battling obesity and spending huge sums to burn off excess calories, while the other two-thirds yearn…

— Wess Stafford

The level of consumption that we identify with success is utterly unsustainable. We're gobbling up the world.

— John Robbins

“Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money; the more there is of…

— Peter Joseph

“We need to consume less. A lot less. Less food, less energy, less stuff. Fewer cars, electric cars, cotton T-shirts, laptops, mobile phone upgrades.…

— Stephen Emmott

Half the world's starving; the other half is trying to lose weight.

— Roseanne Barr

The world is full of men and women who work too much, sleep too little, hardly ever exercise, eat poorly, and are always struggling…

— Matthew Kelly

We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful:…

— Nelson Mandela

Laziness is the mother of efficiency

— Marian Propp

In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if…

— Kofi Annan

The essence of the problem is about consumption, recognizing that a society that consumes one-third of the world's resources is unsustainable. This level of…

— Winona LaDuke

There are fundamental tensions between the biological reality of the planet and the economic reality. To some extent you can adapt the economy, create…

— Michael Pollan

“Sift through threats for hidden possibilities. Every threat carries with it the potential for innovation. The problem of obesity contains the possibility of new…

— Marty Neumeier