Green Design Quotes

Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.

The fashion industry is the worst possible vessel for conveying an ethical message about anything.

G is for Green, that's constructed to roll in every direction away from the hole.

When I say I don't do fur or leather, in my world it's a massive shock, but when it comes into the sporting arena, it goes without saying. It also influences what I do on the runway: I get really excited when I discover an environmentally-friendly print process that doesn't use water, and I'll try and mimic that in my ready-to-wear.

Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.

A lot of designers still have nostalgia for the past. As for the furniture in the future, I hope they use less of real wood. Conservation in wood is necessary.

Waste equals food, whether it's food for the earth, or for a closed industrial cycle. We manufacture products that go from cradle to grave. We want to manufacture them from cradle to cradle.

It's always interesting to see how we're able to, with craftsmanship... to bring these cool sustainable materials, cool metals, into the House of Marley and keeping that sustainable movement as well.

I don't like to talk about sustainability, because sometimes I see green buildings that don't appear any different from those in the past.

Jay Harman is the quintessential biomimic, a principled inventor who sees solutions everywhere he looks in the natural world. And he looks deeply, with the soul of a student. He moves with grace from a world of waving sea kelp to the world of sustainable design, bringing nature's wisdom into the board rooms of global companies, to the design tables of the engineers and designers who make our world. This is more than a business book, more than a memoir, more than a new way to solve global challenges. It's a book about a new way to think.

So many young designers are focused on styling rather than materials now. We have to change that.

Design our world so that we have positive social and environmental side effects.

Mediocre design provably wastes the world's resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important.

The future of design is a future where anything material in the environment - whether it's wearables, cars, buildings - can be designed with this variation of properties and relationship with the environment that can take part in the natural ecology.

If design is to be ecologically responsible, it must be independent of concern for the gross national product.

Could we design an all-glass building with internal channels and networks for airflow and water circulation? Can we surpass the great modern tradition of discrete formal and functional partitions and generate an all-in-one building skin?

Fashion is a logical place to start to raise awareness for sustainable causes.

Design shouldn't have to take a backseat to sustainability and making things responsibly.

Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge.

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.