Energy use is merely a means to many rewarding ends: economic security, education, health. — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
We need a proportional quantitative understanding of energy use, for everyone. — Saul Griffith 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“The more you try to force life to flow where you would like it to go, as opposed to where it wants… — Richard Rudd 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
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
“But what if I were to say to you that 25 years from now, the bulk of the energy you use to… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
I have to tell you with regards to global warming that that's something, which, you're right, the scientists haven't entirely resolved, but… — Mitt Romney 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
“This is the place to dispel the "solar myth." The United States is a relatively sunlit nation of low population density, a… — Gerard K. O'Neill 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
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
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
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
When we learn how to store electricity, we will cease being apes ourselves; until then we are tailless orangutans. You see, we… — Thomas A. Edison 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
I was writing a book about sustainable energy, and a friend asked me, 'Well, how much energy do you use at home?'… — David J. C. MacKay 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
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
“This means that for the past thirty years, we have been wasting 86 percent of the energy we use in the production… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Energy efficiency not only saves businesses and consumers money, but it also reduces pollution by cutting energy use. — Jeff Van Drew 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
It is not important question how much energy do you have, but how do you use it. — Tamerlan Kuzgov Copy Share Image
Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal. — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
Energy use, transportation options, food choices, water use, purchasing choices, participating in elections, volunteering for nonprofits . . . and within each… — Jayni Chase 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
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
If we do not learn to eliminate waste and to be more productive and more efficient in the ways we use energy,… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
We want to see...the efficient production and use of energy, so that the products we produce and the way we produce them… — John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley 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
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
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
Under the rule of the "free market" ideology, we have gone through two decades of an energy crisis without an effective energy… — Wendell Berry 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