Quotes about Environmental Responsibility from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
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 "A July 20, 2006, report by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and the Public Employees for environmental responsibility (PEER), said that approximately one-fifth of the nearly 1,000 FDA scientists who responded to a survey stated that they had been asked, for nonscientific reasons, to alter or exclude technical information or conclusions.
And, one-fifth said that they have been asked explicitly by FDA decisionmakers to provide incomplete, inaccurate or misleading information to the public, industry, the media and government officials."- Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.) |
 "Regardless of party affiliation, the boomers want to make sure the legacy they leave is one of environmental responsibility. There is a consciousness in this generation that wasn't there in as high a percent of their parent's generation."- David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "The company has built a national reputation for its leadership in organics, natural nutrition, and corporate environmental responsibility and is the number one brand in the natural products segment.1 ^ www.stonyfield.com Trader Joe's One of the critical influences today on organic food pricing, Trader Joe's, the privately held, ridiculously low-priced food chain that began in Southern California, is the biggest competition natural supermarket chains Whole Foods and Wild Oats face. Trader Joe's always has the lowest pricing for certified organic foods." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "GreenBiz is the leading information resource on how to align environmental responsibility with business success. They provide valuable news and resources to large and small businesses through a combination of Web sites, workshops, daily news feeds, and e-newsletters. Their resources are free to all users. www.greenbiz.com; see also www.climatebiz.com Lawn and Garden NaturaLawn If you are making the effort to purchase organic foods to keep pesticides and chemical fertilizers out of kitchen, why not keep them out of your yard as well? NaturaLawn is making this possible." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) |
 "Opposite: The Reichstag in Berlin is a symbol not only of transparency in government, but of environmental responsibility.
Left: The Swiss Re (Reinsurance) headquarters in London, known affectionately as the "Gherkin."
The USGBC uses a public, consensus-based process to evolve and refine the standards—which have grown to encompass interiors, renovations, and new homes —and it is moving toward establishing ratings for neighborhood development and home retrofits."- Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "SR ¦hbb resources Ten Shades of Green: Architecture and The Natural-World by Peter Buchanan (The Architectural League of New York, 2005) In Ten Shades of Green (based on the traveling exhibit of the same name) curator Peter Buchanan uses ten buildings that combine environmental responsibility and innovative design to argue that sustainability is not only good for the planet, but that it also offers architects new opportunities for creativity and innovation—that there is no such thing as the monolithic "green aesthetic." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "From the things you buy to your relationships with customers and suppliers, to the full life cycle of your products and services—each step of the way, you can make choices that will go toward aligning environmental responsibility with business success. Begin to make changes where they can be made profitably. If you can't achieve a profit immediately, you can at least make changes in a way that will not decrease profits and productivity for more than a short period. It's important to keep in mind that it isn't possible to do everything right; gradual, incremental progress is a worthy goal." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Huge corporations like Nike were dragged into transparency and transformation by pressure from consumer boycotts, and now they stand very publicly for social and environmental responsibility. Branding itself changed as corporations recognized that consumers want to feel an authentic and emotional connection to the products that furnish their material world. But boycotts and renunciation don't themselves create new ways of doing business. Rather than rejecting the tools that build brands, we need to use them to produce different results." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) |
 "In July 2006, the Union of Concerned Scientists and Public Employees for environmental responsibility distributed a 38-question survey to nearly 6,000 FDA scientists. Nearly 1,000 scientists responded, disclosing that 61% knew of cases in which "Department of Health and Human Services or FDA political appointees have inappropriately injected themselves into FDA determinations or actions," and 60% knew of cases "where commercial interests have inappropriately induced or attempted to induce the reversal, withdrawal, or modification of FDA determinations or actions."- Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.) |
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