Steve Jurvetson Quotes

All my projects are about sustainability, bioremediation, making things in a cleaner fashion.

What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.

Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

Sustainable development is a proven catalyst for Xerox innovation.

The notion of 'reduce and refine' is one I've pursued. I truly believe that by making things less complex, by finding innovative ways to make sustainability affordable, we can advance the notion that it is possible.

We can turn your bottles back into oil. We can burn it to make energy. Our we can put it in a landfill. There’s a green spectrum. And a cost spectrum. The most green is the most expensive.

Our myopic focus on producing and consuming as cheaply as possible has created a linear economy in which objects are briefly used and then discarded as waste.

The challenge of pollution and global warming is no longer the science, or the rate of innovation, but the rate of implementation: We have the clean solutions; now let's bundle them and install them.

It's nice there is a cleanup system, but if it doesn't collect any plastic, it's not very useful.

If we can recycle a valuable product that serves an important purpose - and create jobs in the process - then why wouldn't we? Well, that's exactly what fly ash offers.

We need to throw away less, recycle a lot more and turn much of the rest into energy.

For me, it's my great honour that many people use blue LEDs or LED lightings now. So, we can contribute to the energy savings for the humans, so I'm very, very happy to contribute to the energy saving issues.

I hope to see an integrated solution created to deal with both the local pollution problem and the global climate change problem.

I'm an environmentalist; I recycle.

As a scientist, I clearly see the potential for harnessing the power of nature.

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

The challenge of global warming should stimulate a whole raft of manifestly benign innovations - for conserving energy and generating it by 'clean' means (biofuels, innovative renewables, carbon sequestration, and nuclear fusion).

Job creation is a choice. Investing in cleaner, greener technologies that allow us to strike a more sustainable balance with the other living systems of this earth - this, too, is a choice.

A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment?

There's no law of physics that says we have to be an unsustainable society - in fact, quite the opposite. The planet's ready to work with us if we're ready to think differently, but we do have to make that jump and start to do things in new ways.

It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.

Does this planet have enough resources so seven or eight billion can have the same level of consumption and waste that today is seen in rich societies? It is this level of hyper-consumption that is harming our planet.

I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.

We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.

I've recently started composting in my apartment, which is quite an adventure.