“If we want to have more choice in transportation, we will have to rethink the way our surroundings are built and make changes now, so we actually have living choices once we seek them.”
Claus Wawrzinek
Chair, Thomas Hart Benton Group of the Sierra Club
March 2010
“Sustainability requires us to recollect a human history of biological diversity and cultural diversity that are inextricably linked. The indigenous peoples I have worked with determine wealth not by the material resources — the things — one owns, but by the number of good relationships one maintains.”
Daniel Wildcat
Director, Haskell Environmental Research Studies Center
July 2010
“Anyone within any organization has the power to help reduce damages to the environment and make positive changes. There is always a way to make things cleaner and greener.”
Kristin Riott Interim Director, Bridging The Gap July 2010
“More and more, we’re seeing that the choice between our economy and our environment is a false choice. What I saw on my recent visit to Kansas City was more than just a good start; it was a clear indication that your city can be a leader in the low-carbon 21st-century economy.”
Lisa Jackson
Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency
September 2010
“Yes, greater Kansas City is growing. More than ever, we are working together — one vibrant, connected and green place at a time — to grow into a sustainable region.”
David Warm
Executive director, Mid-America Regional Council
November 2010
“No amount of military force can preserve the status quo or keep burgeoning 21st-century challenges from our shores, and it’s time to shed our national sense of entitlement and rediscover our national sense of destiny.”
Col. Mark Mykleby
U.S. Marine Corps
May 2011
“Jobs in green design, construction and renovation are exactly the types of jobs we must grow and nurture here in Missouri.”
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon
July 2011
“Kansas City is one of the most progressive cities in the nation when it comes to reducing our environmental impact. Readers of Greenability, perhaps more than others, understand that the most meaningful change does not come easily. But we will continue to choose difficult and meaningful over easy and splashy.”
Kansas City Mayor Sly James
September 2011