#sustainable

It’s cool when fashion recycles itself, it’s not cool when sustainable living does because it means there was (and is as I write) a period of absolute and possibly irreversible destruction. ↗

— Cameron Conaway

#environment #fashion #nature #rational #religion

The key to truly rebuilding our central city on a vital and sustainable foundation is people. ↗

— Alan Autry

#city #foundation #key #our #people

During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#development #during #five #health #high-level

That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#aids #center #development #health #only

Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future. ↗

— Bill Gates

#circumstances #economy #ensure #environment #farmers

Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable! ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#case #country #extreme #greece #level

Civilization can never be sustainable. ↗

— Derrick Jensen

#never #sustainable

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#could #die #ethics #financial #financial system

Sometimes it is in the long-run interest of the business sector to restrict the freedom of individual firms so that they do not destroy the common pool of resources that all of them need, such as natural resources or the labour force. ↗

— Ha-Joon Chang

#business

I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment. ↗

— Steve Irwin

#conservation #greatest #i #i believe #moment