Quotes by Environmental Consuming three planets' worth of resources when in fact we have one is the environmental equivalent of childhood obesity - eating until you make yourself sick. David Miliband environmental childhood sick What's now urgently needed [to stop environmental disaster] is the international political commitment to take action to avoid dangerous climate change. David Miliband environmental political commitment In the future, every industry should be an environmental industry. In a world where energy and carbon emissions are constrained, every business must take resource productivity seriously David Miliband carbon-emissions environmental business Today, the UK must be the pioneer of a new model of economic change, that integrates social and environmental consideration. This is not just a question of values and moral duty. It is about our economy's capacity to sustain itself David Miliband pioneers environmental business There are many ways to salvation, and one of them is to follow a river. David R. Brower environmental rivers way It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it. David R. Brower environmental wrecks energy There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place! David R. Brower garbage stores environmental You don't need it, but will you take some advice from a Californian who's been around for a while? Cherish these rivers. Witness for them. Enjoy their unimprovable purpose as you sense it, and let those rivers that you never visit comfort you with the assurance that they are there, doing wonderfully what they have always done. David R. Brower environmental rivers advice Keep your rivers flowing as they will, and you will continue to know the most important of all freedoms-the boundless scope of the human mind to contemplate wonders, and to begin to understand their meaning. David R. Brower environmental mind rivers In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled. David Suzuki recycled environmental waste There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs plankton 40 to 1. David Suzuki environmental usa ocean The fact of the matter is that today, stuff-selling mega-corporations have a huge influence on our daily lives. And because of the competitive nature of our global economy, these corporations are generally only concerned with one thing - the bottom line. That is, maximising profit, regardless of the social or environmental costs. David Suzuki environmental lines cost Each of us now has 2.27 kg (5 lbs) of plastic embedded in our bodies. David Suzuki embedded environmental body No institutions in modern society are better equipped to catalyze the necessary transition to a sustainable world than colleges and universities. They have access to the leaders of tomorrow and the leaders of today. What they do matters to the wider public. David W. Orr environmental leaders-of-tomorrow college 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. David W. Orr sustainability environmental assumption In an ecological perspective, in other words, there are few accidents or anomalies, only outcomes based on system structure and dynamics. Climate change and glittering malls, Calcuttan poverty and sybaritic wealth, biotic impoverishment and economic growth, militarism and terrorism, global domination and utter vulnerability are not different things but manifestations of a single system. David W. Orr environmental perspective growth For three decades and longer we have been developing the ideas, science, and technological wherewithal to build a sustainable society. The public knows of these things only in fragments, but not as a coherent and practical agenda indeed the only practical course available. That is our fault and we should start now to put a positive agenda before the public that includes the human and economic advantages of better technology, integrated planning, coherent purposes, and foresight. David W. Orr environmental technology ideas From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change. David Suzuki environmental perspective years Less than 10% of the fuel energy burned in automobiles is translated into forward motion of the vehicle and even then most of this energy is needed to move the vehicle itself, which typically weighs 20 times more than its passengers. David Suzuki environmental energy moving If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts. David Suzuki environmental impact addiction «56789101112131415»