Advantage Quote by Michael Bloomberg

I am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend if the air is too dirty to…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Attracting business to a city is of huge benefit for taxes, jobs, purchasing of homes and home goods.

— Hilary Farr

The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.

— Sam Wyly

All of the economic signals in the marketplace are essentially subsidizing the use of dirty fossil fuels and penalizing clean energy. There's really only…

— Jay Inslee

Cities like Portland, Seattle, and Long Beach, which have made these investments in their infrastructure, are seeing not only health advantages, but also a…

— Ben Sollee

From a business perspective, the question related to cities and sustainability is clear and compelling: can you have a healthy company in an unhealthy…

— Joel Makower

It's a big deal in my city to have a breath of fresh air.

— Donnis

As industries migrate toward the Far East, the future of many Western cities will no longer lie in manufacturing products but ideas and patents.…

— Charles Landry

Cities offer us powerful leverage on our most stubborn, wasteful practices. Long commutes in our cars, big power bills from our energy-hogging buildings, shopping…

— Alex Steffen

“Individual cities that now do the same thing can reap the benefits. So this isn’t complicated: the most educated people who plug into the…

— Thomas L. Friedman

I have realized after all these years that a city that has a good quality of life attracts jobs. People don't want to invest…

— Jaime Lerner

Cities are responsible for the vast majority of the creation of the economy. They're also places into which we pour the vast majority of…

— Alex Steffen