Bill Clinton Quotes

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

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

Manufacturers to Green when it makes more Green.

All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting 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.

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.

Sustainability is the key to our survival on this planet and will also determine success on all levels.

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

If we can clean up our world, I'll bet you we can achieve warp drive.

As a group, we want to follow good and green strategy. Setting targets is one element of that. The second part is to design products which meet environmental goals.

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.

I actually believe 'Sustainability', as a concept, is one of the arteries leading to the heart of so many of our cultural transitions at play today. And it's this concept which leads me to bottled water, and its multibillion dollar industry.

I'm on the board of the Sierra Club Foundation and am myself a big environmentalist. But the way to make the biggest difference is to change mainstream behavior.

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

Conservation is not without a cost.

Everyone realizes that we have to clean up the environment, but no one likes the cost.

How can you save the rain forests, the planet's wildlife, without funds?

For every person in the world to reach the present U.S. level of consumption with existing technology would require four more planet earths.

There are fewer chemical pollutants in the air. Our drinking water is safer. Our food standards have been raised. We've cleaned up more toxic waste sites in three years than the previous administrations did in twelve. The environment is cleaner, and we have fought off the most vigorous assault on environmental protection since we began to protect the environment in 1970. We are moving in the right direction to the 21st century.

Humanity stands ... before a great problem of finding new raw materials and new sources of energy that shall never become exhausted. In the meantime we must not waste what we have, but must leave as much as possible for coming generations.

I consider myself fundamentally more of an environmentalist than many of the environmental groups. We have to come up with new sources of food, new sources of water, new sources of energy. Trying to ignore leading-edge science and technology as a means of getting there is an ostrich approach of burying your head in the sand.