Stewart Udall Quotes

When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days.

Sustainable development is a proven catalyst for Xerox innovation.

At Natura, we have long been committed to measure and improve the impacts of our activities.

More businesses should be following Apple's stance in encouraging more investment in sustainability.

We drive our business as a cause, one where we power a greener tomorrow.

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.

I try to leave a light footprint. I'm involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people about sustainable building and the greening of schools. I try to be aware about the consumption of unnecessary things in a consumptive culture.

The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.

What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.

Recycling is an area where jobs could be created at low cost. Green collar workers. That's not very sexy.

There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable.

I'm a strong proponent of green tech for anyone who can afford it, having spent the last 40 years working toward achieving a smaller and smaller eco-impact for myself.

Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product.

If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly.

The most staggering linguistic turnabout for me is the one that equates green economy with 'sustained economic growth.'

We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources.

The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters.

Resources businesses must contribute to sustainable development if we are to continue to have access to resources.

You'll know the green revolution has been won when the word 'green' disappears.

Sustainable development requires human ingenuity. People are the most important resource.

I hear my own daughters talking about big companies polluting the environment, and then I realise they are talking about companies of which one I am running. But when I tell them to read the things we are doing, then they realise we are doing good things. But millennials are really a great lot.

I want to tell mayors, county chiefs and heads of big companies: don't just chase GDP growth; don't chase the biggest profits at the expense of our children and grandchildren and at the cost of sacrificing our ecological environment.

We try to make earth-friendly decisions whenever we can, as it's part of our brand DNA.

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

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.