Rohan Marley Quotes

We started Marley Coffee from a farm perspective, and ever since, we've been doing things in a sustainable way and organically.

I think about sustainability all the time, whether it's with fish or farmers in Eastern Oregon.

I think if you buy from people who are taking care of the land, you're supporting the future of this country.

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.

Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure.

Whole Foods has been brilliant at changing the way food is produced because they just won't buy it if it doesn't meet their standards.

In many places where coffee is grown, deforestation is a major issue. With Starbucks' position in the marketplace and the respect and relationships we have, we can - and have, in some cases - been able to educate and influence people.

It's all about fair trade, and helping people eating locally grown stuff. We're recycling everything. We're trying to tour in the most conscious way possible, environmentally and socially.

You can pregrow a village with no consequence on the land. In fact, with a positive carbon contribution.

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

In many places where coffee is grown, deforestation is a major issue.

I have been a long-term environmental advocate for the agriculture industry. I have particularly tried to push carbon farming or carbon sequestration.

Permacultures - where you use the immediate environment to grow food - should be mandatory.

Organic is loaded with a sense of rightness, with a set of rules. I would much rather someone bought food that was local and sustainable but not organic than bought organic food that had to be shipped across the world.

It is critical for us to cultivate consciousness and compassion towards our environment, create awareness, galvanize people, and build sustainable innovations for sustainable development.

Many organic practices simply make sense, regardless of what overall agricultural system is used. Far from being a quaint throwback to an earlier time, organic agriculture is proving to be a serious contender in modern farming and a more environmentally sustainable system over the long term.

As we look to the future, we cannot improve our living standards while simultaneously degrading the natural environment around us.

The higher the stakes, the more responsible we have to be. It was with this in mind that I began to build my Green Economy and Climate Agenda.

It is our responsibility as businesses to deliver ambitious solutions and technologies to bring us low-carbon, inclusive and sustainable growth.

I am not against development, but society will go nowhere if you don't take care of trees.

Everything depends on our ability to sustainably inhabit this earth, and true sustainability will require us all to change our way of thinking on how we take from the earth and how we give back.

Naturally healthy soil can sustain coffee crops for generations to come. All of this contributes to the quality of the bean.

The great challenge of the 21st century is to provide good standards of living for 7 billion people without depleting the earth's resources or running up massive levels of public debt. To achieve this, government and business alike will need to find new models of growth that are in both environmental and economic balance.

Large-scale deforestation can be prevented while increasing food production through better, smarter agriculture.

We have that platform to tell something and that voice to tell people we have got to stop and change our ways. That's just how I think about it.