Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.

You can grow without destroying the things that you love.

This is the kind of balance people expect: both environment and the economy - not one or the other.

This paradigm that says we have to choose industry over the environment or the environment over industry is the old way of thinking.

The concept of 'green jobs' or a 'green economy' is often attacked as the work of the Grimm Brothers by those wedded to the grim science of free-market economics.

Permissible growth in the future has to be based on sustainable and equitable models.

We need to transform the economy so it works for people and the planet.

We need a completely different type of economy - one which is truly green, sustainable, and embeds the biggest issues of the day into its heart.

We need economic growth that is sustainable and job-rich rather than just statistically impressive.

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.

Nature, too, shall live its own life. We must beware not to disrupt it with the color of our houses and interior fittings. yet we should not attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together into a higher unity.

The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.

In tough times, some of us see protecting the climate as a luxury, but that's an outdated 20th-century worldview from a time when we thought industrialization was the end goal, waste was growth, and wealth meant a thick haze of air pollution.

I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

In time, we will have to recognise that it is not 'nature' that we need to protect, but ourselves, and we can only do this by abandoning the old, grandiose, profit-seeking schemes so beloved of our masters and learning to till the soil, live to scale, and live within our means.

We need a mobilized and active civil society using its purchasing power to demand sustainable products and practices. It is also essential that governments commit to the future, creating fiscal and regulatory conditions for sustainable policies to thrive.

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

One of Alaska's strengths is our pioneer role in environmentally sensitive development.

Maybe it's because I look into the future professionally, but I see great possibilities for both humanity and our planet. I don't believe the thriving of one has to come at the expense of the other, and I'm deeply concerned to find out whether other people do think that.

Green technologies - going green - is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century.

If Canada could simply apply the basic principles of sustainable development, such as the internalization of costs and 'polluters pay,' it would have long-term beneficial effects, both environmental and economic.

Good environmental policy is good economic policy.

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.

For the developed world, there is a choice to be made: to promote economic policies that despoil indigenous lands or to support cultures and the remaining biological sanctuaries.