Sustainable Energy
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“All of a sudden, you know, we may be in the energy business by being able to grow grass on the ranch! And have it harvested and converted into energy. That’s what’s close to happening.”
George W. Bush, February 2006
“Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 per cent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within ten years. This goal is achievable, affordable and transformative.”
Al Gore, Constitution Hall, Washington DC, 17 July 2008
“This is absolutely nothing to do with emissions trading, this is about getting on and doing it. You cannot tackle climate change by trading, you have to actually do things.”
Allan Jones, London Climate Agency, about his work for Woking Borough Council, on Australia’s ABC Radio National, 26 July 2008
“We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories.”
President Barack Hussein Obama, inauguration speech, 20 January 2009
“Our survival will very much depend on how well we were able to draw down CO2 to 280 parts per million.”
Hans-Josef Schellnhuber, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impacts Research in Germany, quoted by Gaia Vince in the New Scientist, 25 February 2009
“Everyone things of changing the world, but no one every thinks of changing himself.”
Tolstoy
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
Margaret Mead
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Excess choice leads to unfreedom.”
Dr Barry Schwartz, Psychology Professor
“Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom.”
Nelson Mandela
“A lot of people doing a little but really is effective.”
Dr Chris West, Climate Expert
“We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.”
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
“Garbage is the waste of a throwaway society – ecological societies have never had garbage.”
Dr Vandana Shiva, Campaigner
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.”
New England Proverb
“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.”
Navajo Proverb
“If insects disappeared, the world would collapse within weeks.”
David Attenborough
“All things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.”
Xenophanes, 580 BC
“We are living on this planet as if we had another one to go to.”
Terri Swearingen, Environmental Campaigner
“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature’s inexorable imperative.”
H.G. Wells
“Forests are the lungs of our land.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“The frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives.”
Chinese Proverb
“Nature provides us with a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.”
William Ruckelshaus
“Keep your eyes on the sun and you will not see the shadows.”
Aboriginal Australian Proverb
“What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?”
Henry David Thoreau, American Writer and Philosopher
“Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine.”
Aldous Huxley
“If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.”
Anita Roddick
“When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves.”
David Orr, Environmentalist
“Children really brighten up a household. They never turn the lights off.”
Ralph Bus
“Environmentally friendly cars will soon … become a necessity.”
Fujio Cho, Toyota Motors
“Inspiration comes of working every day.”
Charles Baudelaire
“If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.”
Henry Fielding
“If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed.”
Chinese Proverb
“Before you finish eating your breakfast this morning you’ve depended on half the world.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
