#sustain

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. ↗

— Albert A. Bartlett

#humanity #life #science #sustainability #sustainable-development

Manufacturers have long chosen plastic for their products on the basis of price and functionality., But creating a more sustainable relationship with plastics will require a new dexterity on our part. It will require us to think about the entire life cycle of the products we create and use. ↗

— Susan Freinkel

#sustainability #life

It’s cool when fashion recycles itself, it’s not cool when sustainable living does because it means there was (and is as I write) a period of absolute and possibly irreversible destruction. ↗

— Cameron Conaway

#environment #fashion #nature #rational #religion

The energy and daring is to resist the noes, until the final yes has been achieved. ↗

— Jeffrey D. Sachs

#future #science #sustainability #science

Memorial bracelets memorializing prisoners of war, missing in action, killed in action, and those who died of wounds or injuries sustained in a combat theater are authorized. ↗

— James F. Amos

#authorized #combat #died #injuries #killed

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#challenge #development #equality #gender #goal

People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them. ↗

— David Attenborough

#africa #clearly #due #future #happening

The key to truly rebuilding our central city on a vital and sustainable foundation is people. ↗

— Alan Autry

#city #foundation #key #our #people

The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration's overall economic development strategy. ↗

— John Baldacci

#always #american #been #communities #critical

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#persecution #propagation #religion #requires #sustain