Citizens Quote by Maurice Strong

The communities and countries best at using energy to optimize a microclimate for human life are also the ones whose people have the longest…

— Chris Hadfield

“This means that for the past thirty years, we have been wasting 86 percent of the energy we use in the production of goods…

— Jeremy Rifkin

The consumption and production of energy is a major component of the global economy.

— Barry Ritholtz

“If we look at the rise of our own civilization over the past 100,000 years, since modern humans emerged in Africa, it can be…

— Michio Kaku

Ours is the most wasteful nation on Earth. We waste more energy than we import. With about the same standard of living, we use…

— Jimmy Carter

If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

— E. F. Schumacher

Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of…

— David R. Brower

I'm pretty much your average, energy-saving-light-bulbs-recycling citizen.

— James Van Der Beek

Homes and buildings, many of which are old and drafty, eat up 40 percent of the energy America uses. Such inefficiencies perpetuate our reliance…

— Peter Welch

The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it by consuming its products.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“Suppose we would be able to build 200 Gigawatt worth of nuclear reactors each year or a total expected generation of roughly 1.580 TWh,…

— Mathijs Beckers