#ironmen

Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of the global environment. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#believe #condition #conference #environment #global

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#damaging #environmental #geared #less #lifestyles

Also, it is interesting that developing countries, with China and India perhaps in the lead, where the future of the global environment will be decided are now on board with the case for sustainable development. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#board #case #china #countries #decided

I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#board #both #contribute #corporations #council

I am President of the UN created University for Peace, which has a strong commitment to the relationship between peace, security and the environment. I meet with young people around the world and I always come away enthused and encouraged. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#am #around #away #between #come

Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#damaging #dupont #environmentally #even #grand

Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#asset #been #environmental #environmental movement #example

We in the industrialized world make a greater difference because our ecological footprint, our impact on the condition of the environment, is 40 to 50 times larger than that of people in the developing world. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#condition #developing #developing world #difference #ecological

So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#entire #environment #faulkner #held #i

Once the image was in the digital environment, one of the problems was, we had no means to reproduce the color spectrum, grey scale, and contrast that film produces, without converting the digital file to film, evaluating it, then going back and changing the digital image. ↗

— John Dykstra

#changing #color #contrast #converting #digital