269 Quotes About Sustainability

Markets cannot meet the needs of the very poor. The desperately poor are not consumers who will create an immediate profit.

Ban privileges. The rules of the game should be the same to all players, regardless of their size, location, or any other criteria

Ban short-selling, high speed trading and all other instruments of pure speculation

CEOs should be measured by the value they create into the community, the shareholders and the members of the company.

It is essential for a sustainable economy to see natural resources as an asset, and wasteful or harmful use of those resources as risks.

No matter how good we get at solving environmental problems, it’s not enough to create a truly sustainable economy unless we address the social challenges that imperil sustainability. Foremost among those challenges are inequality and poverty.

Sustainability is best illustrated by those who sell food … just so they afford something to eat.

Sustainability is a new idea to many people, and many find it hard to understand. But all over the world there are people who have entered into the exercise of imagining and bringing into being a sustainable world. They see it as a world to move toward not reluctantly, but joyfully, not with a sense of sacrifice, but a sense of adventure. A sustainable world could be very much better than the one we live in today.

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