William McDonough Quotes

We must give everyone a stake in the World’s environment.

Securing a sustainable future will take all of us working together.

We have reached a new milestone as a human family. With seven billion of us now inhabiting our planet, it is time to ask some fundamental questions. How can we provide a dignified life for ourselves and future generations while preserving and protecting the global commons - the atmosphere, the oceans and the ecosystems that support us?

A sustainable world means working together to create prosperity for all.

This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.

I have been fighting climate change for two decades, and people often ask me how I remain hopeful in the face of extreme weather and grim forecasts. The answer is simple: I see countless solutions spreading across the nation and across the world. But we need more investment.

People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.

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.

The language 'It's too late' is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death already, but it's not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better.

We - the current generation - have a moral responsibility to make the world better for future generations.

We can all be heroes, joining together in a grand mission to save those living on this little blue planet.

We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ranks of reason to the leadership of the great march to environmental victory.

Brazil's commitment to sustainable development is a deep-rooted one. It permeates our public policies and our actions abroad.

The strongest governments on earth cannot clean up pollution by themselves. They must rely on each ordinary person, like you and me, on our choices, and on our will.

Our ecological emergency demands proactive choices, not reactive sideswipes.

Tackling climate change is a collective endeavour, it means collective accountability and it's not too late

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency.

Protecting our land, our air and our water is a very important thing that we can only do together.

Earth is abundant with plentiful resources. Our practice of rationing resources through monetary control is no longer relevant and is counter-productive to our survival.

Even the government understands that the environmental challenge is so big that no single agency can handle it. It needs collaboration among all the stakeholders - companies, governments, NGOs and the public. Public accountability will be the ultimate driving force.

Yes, the Green Party is committed to a healthy environment. But the Green Party is not solely committed to just that.

We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.

World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace.