Quotes of: Environmental-protection Keyword

Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.

Majora Carter

I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.

Ted Turner

For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote. Yes, environmental problems do constrain human societies, but the societi...

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

I've been a philanthropist for all my life, and... I've had many involvements in humanitarian and environmental issues.

Julian Lennon

Propaganda is a sprinter, but truth is a long-distance runner.

Responsibilities to future generations: Environmental ethics

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.

Barry Commoner

I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective.

Joe Barton

Living on through loss seems by contrast as bad or worse; it means experiencing environmental deterioration, steady decline in human well-being, and increasing constraint on future human action consciously and slowly while realizing that they are lik...

From Apocalypse to Way of Life: Environmental Crisis in the American Century

What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.

Barry Commoner

Inaction is no longer acceptable.

The Collaboration Economy: How to Meet Business, Social, and Environmental Needs and Gain Competitive Advantage

A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs.

Matt Gonzalez

One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.

Maurice Strong

This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

Natalie Jeremijenko

I don't believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together.

Barry Commoner

Poverty is a state of the mind that was created as a result of unhealthy environmental factors. When you are surrounded with unhealthy environmental factors, you will think poorly, speak poorly, act and behave poorly.

Uzoma Nnadi

Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.

Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis

I think the environmental movement has failed in that it's used the stick too much; it's used the apocalyptic tone too much; it hasn't sold the positive aspects of being environmentally concerned and trying to pull us out.

Edward Burtynsky

In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatica...

Bjorn Lomborg

If left unexecuted, even the greatest competitive strategies are not worth the paper on which they were written.

The Collaboration Economy: How to Meet Business, Social, and Environmental Needs and Gain Competitive Advantage

Leadership must come from all of us -- the private, public, and civil sectors.

The Collaboration Economy: How to Meet Business, Social, and Environmental Needs and Gain Competitive Advantage

What's it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single second it takes to actually toss it? Or the ten-thousand-year history of the fossil fuel being burned to drive to ...

Douglas Rushkoff