9 Hard-hitting quotes on Education and sustainability.

Our biggest challenge during this new century is to require a thought that seems abstract – sustainable development – and switch it into a reality for all the world’s people

• Kofi Annan

Sustainable development may be a development that meets the requirements of this without compromising the power of future generations to satisfy their own needs.

• Gro Harlem Brundtland

Without environmental sustainability, economic stability and social cohesion can’t be achieved

• Phil Harding

Sustainability may be a political choice, not a technical one. it isn’t an issue of whether we will be sustainable, but whether we elect to be

• Gary Lawrence

Sustainable development: Meeting present needs without compromising the stock of natural resources remaining for future generations. In terms of buildings, it implies resource efficiency, minimum energy use, flexibility and long life

• Richard Rogers

No matter how complex global problems could seem, it’s we ourselves who have given rise to them. they can’t be beyond our power to resolve

• Daisaku Ikeda

You never change things by fighting the prevailing reality. to vary something, build a replacement model that creates the prevailing model obsolete.

• R. Fuller

Sustainable development and global climate change are two sides of an equivalent coin

• Ban Ki-moon

The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.

• Ayn Rand