Cities generate most of the global economy, and most of its energy use, resource demands and climate emissions. How we build cities… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
The sunlight ... that strikes Earth’s land surface in two hours is equivalent to total human energy use in a year. While… — Christopher Flavin Copy Share Image
We need a proportional quantitative understanding of energy use, for everyone. — Saul Griffith Copy Share Image
The first thing we can do as individuals and as communities, like a school or a university or a church, is cut… — Katharine Hayhoe Copy Share Image
Proponents of efficiency standards argue that they save consumers and businesses money, reduce energy use, and reduce emissions. But families and businesses… — Gina McCarthy Copy Share Image
This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
You can have a strong economy or you can help the environment, but you can't do both at the same time. That's… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water, and connected… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Use your energy for good and it will be replenished with more good energy, use you energy for bad and your energy… — Michael Dolan Copy Share Image
Sustainable development: Meeting present needs without compromising the stock of natural resources remaining for future generations. In terms of buildings, it implies… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
The terrible part of this looming catastrophe is that people have been working on solutions for years and have developed concrete steps… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
You look at energy use in the U.S. and one-third of it is automotive or our transportation system, one-third of it is… — Carol Ross Barney Copy Share Image
What oil companies don't want you to know is that refineries use a huge amount of electricity in refining gasoline. And that's… — Chris Paine Copy Share Image
Life solves its problems with well-adapted designs, life-friendly chemistry and smart material and energy use. — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
We tend to rush toward the complex when trying to solve a daunting problem, but in this case, simplicity wins. Better buildings,… — Edward Mazria Copy Share Image
Climate change and energy use are global problems. News Corp is a global company. Our operations affect the environment all over the… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
All new schools...should be models for sustainable development: showing every child in the classroom and the playground how smart building and energy… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Don't give up your life because balance is important, but when you're young you have energy, use it! — Dana Bash Copy Share Image
We need to push ourselves to make as many reductions as possible in our own energy use first.. and that takes time.… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
For carbon-neutral cities, there are things worth talking about in how our consumption patterns can change - sharing goods, etc. - but… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
Japanese people cut their energy use by 25 percent immediately after Fukushima. They showed there was huge opportunity there. And instead, the… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
For decades we have been living lives of abundance, with little regard for our natural resources or global health. But we are… — John McCain Copy Share Image
The daily grinding of evolution, as accelerated by technology, churns out more and more complex organisms, with higher rates of energy use,… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
