Ed Begley, Jr

If you're not buying recycled products, you're not really recycling.

— Ed Begley, Jr

The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.

— Ed Begley, Jr

One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.

— Ed Begley, Jr

When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.

— Ed Begley, Jr

Experience nature. Then you know why it's worth protecting.

— Ed Begley, Jr

I was a typical Valley teen, in smoggy Van Nuys.

— Ed Begley, Jr

Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.

— Ed Begley, Jr

There are many different ways now to experience nature. Get out there and hike.

— Ed Begley, Jr

People don't want to change. It's hard for people to change and it's hard for businesses to change. If I was running…

— Ed Begley, Jr

I bought my first electric car in 1970. Its top speed was 15 mph and it had just a 15 mile range…

— Ed Begley, Jr

My favorite form of transportation is walking. I live in a neighborhood where you can walk to restaurants, banks, and shops.

— Ed Begley, Jr

The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.

— Ed Begley, Jr

You can't just do one of the things, because it won't be enough to combat the climate change that we're already starting…

— Ed Begley, Jr

The two most abundant forms of power on earth are solar and wind, and they're getting cheaper and cheaper...

— Ed Begley, Jr

I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.

— Ed Begley, Jr

We, who have so much, must do more to help those in need. And most of all, we must live simply, so…

— Ed Begley, Jr

By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a…

— Ed Begley, Jr

People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front…

— Ed Begley, Jr

This is a deeply spiritual issue...Do we want to spend more time trying to care for our fellow man or do we…

— Ed Begley, Jr

I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator…

— Ed Begley, Jr

For decades, community colleges have been the backbone of American workforce training. Because they are nimble and closely attuned to local community…

— Ed Begley, Jr

Some would call me an environmentalist. I don't know why. I reuse the water that falls in my backyard in the winter.…

— Ed Begley, Jr

We have lots of other problems with plastic in our oceans. There are five different big gyres of plastic out in the…

— Ed Begley, Jr

We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the…

— Ed Begley, Jr

To be a modern person in 2012, you are often required to have some electronics in your life. And I do. I…

— Ed Begley, Jr

It's something I passed on to my kids. They really love the earth because they've experienced it from the youngest age. They…

— Ed Begley, Jr

The food in Yugoslavia is fine if you like pork tartare.

— Ed Begley, Jr

You cannot be quiet about things that you know.

— Ed Begley, Jr

Los Angeles is a city known as much for its sun as for its stars and its dirty air.

— Ed Begley, Jr

People don't want to give up their SUVs. They don't want to turn the thermostat down in the winter and up in…

— Ed Begley, Jr

“If you're going to drive a Hummer and buy carbon offsets, that's like getting drunk every night and getting into an AA…

— Ed Begley, Jr

I'm not a wealthy person because I was never a star. I was a working actor and a supporting actor.

— Ed Begley, Jr

I've lived a slower and less expensive life going off the grid, and I'm happier because of it.

— Ed Begley, Jr

I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next…

— Ed Begley, Jr

My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scout, and…

— Ed Begley, Jr

To build a power plant and run lines to houses, to huts, to anything is a tremendous amount of work...how about...just giving…

— Ed Begley, Jr

I think people love nature after they experience it. I know I experienced it as a young man - I took a…

— Ed Begley, Jr

What we often fail to recognize is how efficient a vegan diet is. Less land, less water, more food for our spiraling…

— Ed Begley, Jr

California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to…

— Ed Begley, Jr

As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.

— Ed Begley, Jr