269 Quotes About Sustainability

By weaving your passion and unique skills with a need or cause, and standing with the people you want to serve, you will be well-positioned to make a meaningful dent in the world.

When the solution helps move a system from an equilibrium that is unjust (where there is suffering, exclusion or marginalization) and helps establish a new, more just, equilibrium then social entrepreneurship is at work.

The future of social entrepreneurship is no longer about looking up to a select few who have some kind of rare gift for implementing innovative ideas.

A sustainable local economy is one that enables the local community to be sustainable in all of its aspects in the long run. If the local economy is not sustainable, its future has been traded away -- literally -- to people at a distance, for the proverbial bowl of stew.

Let's be aware of the impact we have, in all ways, and not just those ways we wish.

A job is needed for sustenance, serving in one form or the other,And then we make that part as our life.Being successful in your profession is appreciable but at the end of the day if you miss being with your loved ones, if you miss your baby hugging you, You missed life for that day, not a part of it.Time your time judicially.

For every one calorie of food you eat, ten calories of (rapidly depleting) fossil fuels are stealthily expended in producing it.

Add up all the Three Es and you see we have: 1.an economy that must expand, connected to 2.an energy system that cannot expand, all wrapped up in 3.an environment that is both being depleted of resources and saturated with pollutants. The inescapable conclusion to all this? Things are going to change. Big time.

[...] growth itself can produce unfavorable conditions unless treated with extreme care.