#sustainable

We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren have a healthy and sustainable environment in which to live. ↗

— Jim Clyburn

#earth #ensure #environment #grandchildren #healthy

The recognition that things that are not sustainable will eventually come to an end does not give us much of a guide to whether the transition will be calm or exciting. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#come #does #end #eventually #exciting

Civilization can never be sustainable. ↗

— Derrick Jensen

#never #sustainable

If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#believe #best #care #fiscally #good

First, the year 2004, the year past, the Comptroller General of the United States, David A. Walker, said that arguably it was the worst year in American fiscal history, clearly setting our Nation on an unsustainable path. ↗

— Jim Cooper

#arguably #clearly #david #first #fiscal

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#democracy #development #education #foundation #freedom

San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#city #communities #francisco #lags #open

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

During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#development #during #five #health #high-level

That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#aids #center #development #health #only