Quotes of: Environmentalism Keyword

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

California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

Ed Begley, Jr.

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

I've won some awards. 'Time' magazine designated me as one of the environmental heroes of the 20th century. Oh, and I've got some honorary citizenships, like from the Conch Republic of the Florida Keys. But the one thing I am proud of is I didn't get...

Paul Watson

Above all, it seems to me wrongheaded and dangerous to invoke historical assumptions about environmental practices of native peoples in order to justify treating them fairly. ... By invoking this assumption [i.e., that they were/are better environmen...

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

...the chief cause for the impending collapse of the world - the cause sufficient in and by itself - is the enormous growth of the human population: the human flood. The worst enemy of life is too much life: the excess of human life.

Can Life Prevail? - A Radical Approach To The Environmental Crisis

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

Marshall McLuhan

The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.

Ed Begley, Jr.

Usually, environmental programs are not designed for a mainstream audience.

Paul Watson

The genetics of autism are real, but there are also environmental triggers.

Elizabeth Emken