Christopher Flavin

Urgency and vision are the twin pillars on which humanity's hope now hangs.

— Christopher Flavin

The bottom of the oil barrel is now visible.

— Christopher Flavin

The real potential of electricity lies not in providing social amenities but in stimulating long-term economic development

— Christopher Flavin

The challenge now is to renovate the baroque structure that the Kyoto Plan has become—or else scrap it and get ready to…

— Christopher Flavin

Within a few decades...the United States might get 30% of its electricity from sunshine...

— Christopher Flavin

Sometimes electricity provides unexpected benefits. In a remote village in China's Fujian province in which young men have traditionally had a hard…

— Christopher Flavin

The 1,230 gigawatts (GW) of renewable power generating capacity in place at the end of 2009 now constitutes just over 25 percent…

— Christopher Flavin

Building a world where we meet our own needs without denying future generations a healthy society is not impossible, as some would…

— Christopher Flavin

Already, China's world-leading solar industry provides water heating for 35 million buildings, and India's pioneering use of rainwater harvesting brings clean water…

— Christopher Flavin

Improved energy productivity and renewable energy are both available in abundance—and new policies and technologies are rapidly making them more economically competitive…

— Christopher Flavin

Renewable biofuels are meanwhile making inroads in the transportation fuels market and are beginning to have a measurable impact on demand for…

— Christopher Flavin

The sunlight ... that strikes Earth’s land surface in two hours is equivalent to total human energy use in a year. While…

— Christopher Flavin