Sustainability Quotes

“With limited accountability, misaligned incentives, and lagging legislation, today’s governance systems and structures do not align with the sustainability of humanity or the planet that hosts us.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation

“Existential risks all have the ability to defy sustainability. There is no sustainability without mitigating existential risks.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation

“Sustainable futures are not possible without futures intelligence, which in turn requires climate intelligence.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation

“When it comes to our world and existential risks, we face the “Big UN”: UNcoordinated, UNaccountable, UNprepared, and UNderinvested.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption

“In a systemic world, there is no such thing as discrete or isolated events - impacts cascade and spill over. Drivers of disruption collide, intersect, and amplify.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation

“Disclosures that quantify climate risks can help realign decision-making towards building a resilient climate economy. This creates positive feedback loops to drive further adaptive measures.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation

“We define Greenaissance as an era of renewal with momentous innovation and investment opportunities aligned across fields with the common objective of sustainable energy transition.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption

“Maintaining sustainability (in its broadest sense) may be contingent on humanity’s ability to manage and problem-solve ourselves out of the most complex, systemic, and existential risks.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation

“Climate-aligned interventions at the levels of education & mindsets, foresight & visions, and structures offer the most leverage for systemic change.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation

“The cow is facing its own existential crisis, as industrial cattle farming is being disrupted by alt proteins and plant-based milks that offer alternatives.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation

“As sustainability is the new digital, every company needs to be an energy company.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation

“From an investment perspective, every bond should be a green bond.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Deep underground, microbes turn half a century's worth of city waste into methane. The gases and leachate are extracted through an extensive network of subterranean pipes and then used to power 22,000 nearby homes. While 150 million tons of garbage gradually decomposes unseen below the surface, above ground, the former dump reverts to meadows, woodland and saltwater marshes, providing a haven for wildlife and a massive park for the people of New York.
This is Fresh Kills in the 2020s. In 2001, the infamous landfill received its last, and saddest, consignments - the charred debris of the World Trade Center. Since then, it has been transformed into a 2,315-acre public park. Three times bigger than Central Park, it is the largest new green public space created within New York City for over a century, a mixture of wildlife habitats, bike trails, sports fields, art exhibits and playgrounds. This is poisoned land: fifty years' worth of landfill has killed for ever one of the city's most productive wetland ecosystems. Restoration is impossible. Instead, a brand new ecosystem is emerging on top of the toxic garbage”
― Ben Wilson, Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City

“Retain, maintain or do whatever else it takes to sustain.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, SuaaS : Sustainability as-a-Service

“Great problem, greater opportunity. For climate change, Sustainability is the opportunity. But how?”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, SuaaS : Sustainability as-a-Service

“Sustainability is circular, so should be the services.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, SuaaS : Sustainability as-a-Service

“Rather than “People, planet and profit”; the Sustainability base should be, “People, planet and prospect of both.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, SuaaS : Sustainability as-a-Service

“May it fill your heart with joy to extend your family to include every insect, native plant or animal and fluffy bird that finds sanctuary there with you.”
― Mary Reynolds

“Blooming late in life gives you the gift of being able to sustain your blessings, success, and foundation.”
― Robin S. Baker

“Some people slammed their doors, others didn't,” he told me in his acquired, patient tone. “I had to deal with a lot of rejection in a way I never had before. Some days, I ate very little and walked slowly. It was a discipline I needed away from a world where I could have everything.”
― Steven Keith Hunter, Relish In the Tread

“sustainable peace require people possess bright minds have brave hearts”
― Elhachemi Sabi

“My aim, as with most business owners, is to build something that achieves more than traditional economic growth.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Intrinsically, we humans want to be happy. Evaluative happiness tends to be more stable, and therefore sustainable. Happiness derives from having a purpose, i.e. the pursuit of an interesting and challenging something, which is greater than oneself.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Being sustainable is not just about the product itself which is built to endure over time. It’s also about the people, time and energy involved in the process, and the consumption that its existence requires. If any single part of the process cannot be maintained over time, it’s unsustainable.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as an indicator of economic health is, in fact, not a good indicator of a healthy standard of living at all.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Individuals in any organisation [...] need to see beyond their wallets and use a better measure of progress.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Better measures of progress are at our disposal, we need to create a new narrative and a shared vision to draw a future that is sustainable, that illustrates the full picture, and that’s in balance with our environment.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Healthy ecosystems are the foundation of today’s global economies and societies, and the ones we aspire to build.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Resolving [the destruction of nature] is not only down to conservation areas and governmental policies; it’s also down to shifting to more sustainable methods of production and consumption.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Green Recovery focuses on improving operations, reducing carbon emissions, creating green jobs, expanding renewable energy sources, etc., so it accounts for future environment and climate justice for the planet, and the livelihoods of everyone on it.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit