Matt Rosendale Quotes

Cities offer us powerful leverage on our most stubborn, wasteful practices. Long commutes in our cars, big power bills from our energy-hogging buildings, shopping trips to buy stuff that'll spend a few short months in our homes and long centuries in our landfills.

The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all need to adjust our behavior to this new environment. It would help if we did it quickly.

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 think developed countries - so-called developed countries - should reflect upon the way of living and the waste of energy.

We obviously want to produce things that people want. We are going to continue to do that in an environmentally responsible way, while still being aware of the physical, scientific, and practical issues that we have to deal with.

As sustainability becomes more and more of a concern, we're going to see more plastics.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that any way of living that's based on the use of non-renewable resources won't last.

Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

Resources are becoming scarcer. If we want to promote new growth, we should focus on the quality of the value we are creating.

Tearing down an old house and building a new one is the most wasteful thing we do as humans.

Food waste is an atrocity that is reducible, if not completely avoidable.

The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

The good Lord put oil and gas there for us to find and use, and we'd better do it.

We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.

On certain projects, on big public projects, people definitely are interested in making them greener, but on smaller projects with tight budgets it can be harder.

In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?

Sometimes I worry about the amount of paper I waste.

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.

As we double our numbers ... we must double our houses.

Pollution and the exhaustion of natural resources depend and will depend in the future on the absolute level of total economic activity. This means that is necessary to restrain both the rate of growth of population and, at least in the developed countries, the rate of growth of consumption per head.

If you develop in the old fashioned way there are enormous costs (to the environment)….but we have to demonstrate it, not just tell people.

Waste of resources must ultimately result in National decay. This subject therefore ought to be dealt with in a sympathetic, inquiring spirit, being entirely non-political and non-sectarian.

… the less we use our power the greater it will be.