Boyan Slat Quotes

The only thing to do is say, "If you generate it in your country, you take care of it.

Designers must be increasingly sensitive to our Earth's dwindling resources. It is our responsibility.

We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil.

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

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

Pollution Prevention, Not Polluter Protection Not blind opposition to progress, but opposition to blind progress.

At every stage of my life, I've always wanted to do good for Earth.

We gotta leave a better planet for our kids. And I would say we gotta leave better kids for our planet as well.

If we pass on an unsustainable environment to our children we have failed them.

Climate protection creates sustainability and jobs in the real economy - in construction, in the production of heavy machinery and in systems engineering.

Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.

Both EarthEcho and Seventh Generation understand that young people have the power to change the world - one home, one school and one community at a time.

One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.'

The combination of a workable basic formula and the capacity to improve over time is what one hopes for in any aspect of society: business, government, the non-profit sector.

Clean up your own mess.

If you're not buying recycled products, you're not really recycling.

When you take on something like your footprint on the environment, you have to say, 'Where am I going to draw the circle around my level of responsibility and then where do I assume that others will take responsibility?'

Shikun & Binui, our infrastructure and real estate company, implements sustainability by building their projects 100% sustainable while educating their employees worldwide.

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.

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.

So-called 'sustainable development'... is meaningless drivel.

We can make the world a better place, one butt at a time.

You can grow without destroying the things that you love.

Well, perhaps the greatest achievement, and we didn't know it at the time, was we held an Earth Day in 1970, and out of that Earth Day a lot of students got involved in saving the environment, or trying to.