#sustainability

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It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products should be illegal. We don't need the option of buying children's toys made with lead paint, or aerosols with chlorofluorocarbons, or medicines with unlabeled side effects. And we don't need the option of buying factory-farmed animals.


Jonathan Safran Foer


#animal-rights #capitalism #ecology #sustainability #vegan

This heated (environmental) debate is fundamentally about numbers. How much energy could each source deliver, at what economic and social cost, and with what risks? But actual numbers are rarely mentioned. In public debates, people just say “Nuclear is a money pit” or “We have a huge amount of wave and wind.” The trouble with this sort of language is that it’s not sufficient to know that something is huge: we need to know how the one “huge” compares with another “huge,” namely our huge energy consumption. To make this comparison, we need numbers, not adjectives.


David Mackay


#environment #sustainability #money

Japan is already a leader in energy efficiency, and it has a wealth of innovative technologies. We must put this expertise to use creating a model for growth and sustainability that we can share with the world.


Yoshihiko Noda


#creating #efficiency #energy #energy efficiency #expertise

In 'The General Strike,' we celebrate those who bring a new vision for the world to the table. People who stand for workers rights, human rights, a just representative political system, and a new mode of doing business where sustainability is the norm not the exception.


Justin Sane


#business #celebrate #doing #exception #general

Climate protection creates sustainability and jobs in the real economy - in construction, in the production of heavy machinery and in systems engineering.


Sigmar Gabriel


#construction #creates #economy #engineering #heavy

What art should do, I think, is advance the generation into the next era. It should be one step ahead of the ordinary, ahead of what is already known. Art is what pulls on the next age. I’m not saying that my art is that, but that it would be good if it could be.


Andy Couturier


#community #environmentalism #green #japan #sustainability

Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the sake of patriotism and the love of God? Perhaps some of us would like to think so, but in fact this destruction is taking place because we have allowed ourselves to believe, and to live, a mated pair of economic lies: that nothing has a value that is not assigned to it by the market; and that the economic life of our communities can safely be handed over to the great corporations. (from 'Compromise, Hell!' published in the November/December 2004 issue of ORION magazine)


Wendell Berry


#economics #lies #sustainability #beauty

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps full the dinner pail is valuable.


George Washington Carver


#sustainability #work #food

Why is it that so many people start to value money so much that they trade in most of the hours and years of their life in order to get it?


Andy Couturier


#environmentalism #green #japan #sustainability #money