Sustainability Quotes
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Sustainability is a political choice, not a technical one. It's not a question of whether we can be sustainable, but whether we choose to be
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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Sustainability is here to stay or we may not be.
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All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.
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The notion of 'reduce and refine' is one I've pursued. I truly believe that by making things less complex, by finding innovative ways to make sustainability affordable, we can advance the notion that it is possible.
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We [H&M] believe that growth, profit and sustainability are not contradictory. Our ambition is to be a fair and profitable company, because otherwise we couldn't open any new stores, we couldn't produce new designs and no new jobs would be created. H&M would soon cease to exist.
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We're really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.
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Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
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“Education beats at the heart of sustainability.”
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Buy less, choose well, make it last. Quality rather than quantity: That is true sustainability. If people only bought beautiful things rather than rubbish, we wouldn't have climate change!
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a society driven mainly by selfish individualism has all the potential for sustainability of a collection of angry scorpions in a bottle.
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When you gaze long into the Abyss of Sustainability, the Abyss of Sustainability also gazes into you.
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You didn't have to be a huge rock star; you just had to do well enough to continue doing what you wanted to do. It wasn't about hitting the jackpot, it was about sustainability.
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Perhaps a good resolution for the new year would be to keep asking what world we want to pass on to the next generation. Indeed to ask whether we have a real and vivid sense of that next generation.
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It is only with local [agriculture] that we can manage the complexity and care that sustainability requires.
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The dialogue about sustainability is about a change in the human trajectory that will require us to rethink old assumptions and engage the large questions of the human condition that some presume to have been solved once and for all.
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Sustainability takes forever. And that's the point.
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There can be no question about whether we should or should not transform our society in the direction of sustainability.
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Sustainability is about profit...it is the opportunity of the century.
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Your children should have it impressed upon them that their adult life-style will bear very little resemblance to yours and that they should now be acquiring knowledge, skills, values, and tastes that will sustain them in less materially affluent circumstances. On the other hand, the fresh insights and imaginations of your children may help you find a viable future while there's still time.
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I love what Nick is trying to do. We have a lot of concerns about the sustainability of his approach.
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Sustainability is the key to our survival on this planet and will also determine success on all levels.
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Sustainability is a set of conditions and trends in a given system that can continue indefinitely.
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Real security, in other words, is inseparable from issues of energy policy; education; public health; preservation of soils, forests, and waters; and broadly based, sustainable prosperity.
