Matt Rosendale Quotes

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

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

Being green and clean is not just an aspiration but an action.

Manufacturers to Green when it makes more Green.

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.

It's time for all of us to kind of think about the green initiative as a whole. Monetizing it is very important. It's on us to continue to put the message out.

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

The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made.

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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.

Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.

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

If there is a future, it will be Green.

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

With increasing fervor since the 1980s, sustainability has been the watchword of scientists, environmental activists, and indeed all those concerned about the complex, fragile systems on the sphere we inhabit. It has shaped debates about business, design, and our lifestyles.

If it can be profitable to be green, that's just smart business.

I think if we're going to have to landfill trash, and I think we basically have to, we might as well get the upside for it and dedicate that upside to improving the environment in so many different ways.

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.

… work [jobs] and the environment should not be played off against each other.

Design our world so that we have positive social and environmental side effects.