Green Initiatives Quotes

I, Maggie, personally cannot tell you that you're going to save the planet. But what I do know is that we can draw a line to an issue that can conserve what we already have and what's left in a way that we can actually breathe the air, drink the water, actually grow things in soil - that matters in a real, practical way.

Sustainability is no longer about doing less harm. It's about doing more good.

We haven't seen the turning point yet, but we're sticking to our bottom line, for the environment and the health of the country.

We all celebrate Ganpati festival with a lot of love and care for the deity, but we also need to take care of the environment.

Conservation is for guilty people on Park Avenue with poodles and Pekingeses.

We urgently need more trees, but we appear to believe that the only means of restoring them is planting. We have a national obsession with tree planting, which is in danger of becoming as tokenistic as bamboo toothbrushes and cotton tote bags.

Everyone realizes that we have to clean up the environment, but no one likes the cost.

Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified.

I only started to understand the concept of "environmental protection" 14 years ago. I was an ambassador for a charity event, and the staff told me that the consumption of disposable chopsticks in China, per year, could result in the devastation of unimaginable acres of forest.

Usually, environmental programs are not designed for a mainstream audience.

China has led the world in new tree planting. Over the last several years China has planted 40 percent as many trees as the rest of the world put together. Since 198, all citizens of China over age 11 (and younger than 60) have been formally required at least three trees per year.

Our planet's alarm is going off, and it is time to wake up and take action!

Those who are already feeling the effects of climate change don't have time to deny it - they're busy dealing with it.

If there is any one duty which more than another we owe it to our children and our children's children to perform at once, it is to save the forests of this country, for they constitute the first and most important element in the conservation of the natural resources of this country.

The central organizing principle of governments everywhere must be the environment.

The environment has become a political, polarizing issue.

It gradually became clear that the Green Belt Movement's work with communities to repair the degraded environment could not be done effectively without participants embracing a set of core spiritual values.

I believe in carbon offset initiatives, in eco-villages, in the sustainable regeneration of the tropical rainforest.

He who plants a tree is a servant of God.

I think the bottom line for Oregonians is that cleaner fuels mean cleaner air, and we need that, and we want that.

I think the climate is too important to say we are going to wait until all our economic woes are over before we act effectively.

Conservative Americans care about the environment, they just happen to have a very different approach. They aren't 'deniers,' but instead have a real stake in conserving the land and environment for the future.

I'm with the spirit of Earth-Day-yet-to-come. Nobody can really predict the future, all you can do is look at trends, and that could change at any moment.

[Professional accountants ] should be encouraging companies to enhance their green credentials by switching to renewables, and to respect core labor standards and human rights.

If I were emperor of the world, I would put the pedal to the floor on energy efficiency and conservation for the next decade.