Tim Jackson Quotes

Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed by an increasing number of businesses.

Green business is not about tie-dyed T-shirts. It's about transforming the industrial system itself into one that looks at all the connections.

With the economy and the environment situated as two pillars of the country's growth, my administration will make the utmost effort to achieve a green society.

What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.

Good environmental policy is good economic policy.

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

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

The planet's resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.

The economy of the future has been aligned with the climate agenda. Even the competitiveness of companies will depend on how resource efficient they are.

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.

It is important that we are looking at renewable resources and growing businesses based on them.

Yes, green business is good business. But it's not just about making money. It's about being responsible.

I agree on the need for environmental sustainability. It is no good raising gross national income while at the same time destroying natural assets.

Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.

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.

We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.

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.

There's no law of physics that says we have to be an unsustainable society - in fact, quite the opposite. The planet's ready to work with us if we're ready to think differently, but we do have to make that jump and start to do things in new ways.

I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.

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

I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of the environment. Recessions remind us that economic retreat or stagnation is painful, whatever the goal.

We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources.

I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry.

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