sustainability

There's a myth out there that you have to genuflect at the altar of quarterly earnings. But it's a false choice that you can either be a good fiduciary or promote values such as environmental sustainability.

Sustainability goes across everything I do with Adidas and everything I do with my own house, so the Olympic kit is no exception. It is incredibly environmental in the way that it is manufactured. For example, there's no leather; it's free from PVC. There's lots of woven materials, which means a lot less waste.

Sustainability is the key to our survival on this planet and will also determine success on all levels.

It's shocking to think about how little the travel industry cares about sustainability - and it's the basis of their business!

Sustainability is no longer about doing less harm. It's about doing more good.

We've got to think now, in real terms, for that seventh generation . . . We've got to get back to spiritual law if we are to survive.

What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them.

Taking measures to ensure stability could assure the long-term economic growth and welfare at a global level

The New Economy brings the need to tap people__ curiosity, quest for knowledge and understanding, in order to develop a sustainable society.

Glorify Sustainable Organisations since they benefit all society

Banks should actively encourage companies that are doing a good job on environmental and social fronts. Banking for community development is the banking of future.

You maybe able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.

Nature is inexhaustibly sustainable if we care for it. It is our universal responsibility to pass a healthy earth onto future generations.

The idea of unlimited growth... needs to be seriously questioned on at least two counts: the availability of basic resources and... the capacity of the environment to cope with the degree of interference implied. - E.F. Schumacher

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

If you can't reuse or repair an item, do you ever really own it? Do you ever really own it? Do you ever develop the sense of pride and proprietorship that comes from maintaining an object in fine working order?We invest something of ourselves in our material world, which in turn reflects who we are. In the era of disposability that plastic has helped us foster, we have increasingly invested ourselves in objects that have no real meaning in our lives. We think of disposable lighters as conveniences -- which they indisputably are; ask any smoker or backyard-barbecue chef -- and yet we don't think much about the tradeoffs that that convenience entails.

People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.

Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant.