“I personally think that a couple of pounds a week - maybe rising to almost £3 a week - is a reasonable price for Britain to achieve a degree of energy security to reduce its total dependence on fossil fuels and to honour its commitments to cut green house gases.” ThinkingHouseEnergyCuttingWeekAchieveSecurityCoupleDegreesCommitmentGreenRisingFuelBritainReasonablePoundsHonourDependenceFossilsFossil FuelBurning Fossil FuelsEnergy Security Author:Tim Yeo
“The country that owns green, that dominates that industry, is going to have the most energy security, national security, economic security, competitive companies, healthy population and, most of all, global respect.” CountryEnergyCompanyEconomicSecurityIndustryHealthyGreenPopulationNational SecurityEconomic SecurityEnergy Security Author:Thomas Friedman
“For carbon-neutral cities, there are things worth talking about in how our consumption patterns can change - sharing goods, etc. - but those are a fraction of the impacts of transportation and building energy use. If we need to choose priority actions, the most important things are to densify, provide transit, and green the buildings.” IfsNeedsImportantUseActionEnergyCitiesTalkingBuildingGreenImportant ThingsImpactPatternsPrioritiesEtcGoodsConsumptionCarbonTransportationFractionsEnergy Use Author:Alex Steffen
“Ecology also teaches that all life on earth can be viewed as a competition among species for the solar energy captured by green plants and stored in the form of complex carbon molecules. A food chain is a system for passing those calories on to species that lack the pant's unique ability to synthesize them from sunlight.” EarthFormEnergyAbilityTeachUniqueGreenCompetitionPlantSpeciesComplexesPassingPassingsChainsSunlightEcologyCarbonCapturedMoleculesCaloriesFood ChainSolar EnergyGreen Plants Author:Michael Pollan
“Yet the leaf is the chief product and phenomenon of Life: this is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live. Some people have strange ideas that they live by money. They think energy is generated by the circulation of coins. Whereas the world is mainly a vast leaf colony, growing on and forming a leafy soil, not a mere mineral mass: and we live not by the jingling of our coins, but by the fullness of our harvests.” PeopleThinkingWorldIdeasEnergyAnimalGrowingStrangeProductsMassGreenPlantMereChiefsSoilDependentLive ByPhenomenonHarvestLeafsCoinsFullnessColonyCirculationMineralsGreen World Author:Patrick Geddes
“I normally don't love green juices, but Body & Eden makes theirs tasty by blending ingredients like avocado and banana with the usual suspects like kale and spinach. Delicious as they are, they're low calorie, and the drink names are catchy: I Have Balance, I Have Energy, and my favorite, I Have Calm.” BodyNamesEnergyBalanceDrinkLowsGreenCalmMy FavoriteSuspectsIngredientsUsualDeliciousJuiceEdenBananasCaloriesCatchyTastyKaleSpinachAvocados Author:Gayle King
“Sometimes the road was only a lane, with thick hawthorne hedges, and the green elms overhung it on either side so that when you looked up there was only a strip of blue sky between. And as you rode along in the warm, keen air you had a sensation that the world was standing still and life would last forever. Although you were pedaling with such energy you had a delicious feeling of laziness.” WorldStillsSometimesFeelingsLastsEnergySidesForeverAirSkyStandingBlueGreenWarmSensationsThickLazinessDeliciousLanesBlue SkyStanding StillHawthorne Book:Cakes and Ale Source: Cakes and Ale
“Cities generate most of the global economy, and most of its energy use, resource demands and climate emissions. How we build cities over the next decades will largely determine whether we can deliver a bright green future.” UseNextEnergyCitiesEconomyDemandResourcesGreenClimateDetermineDecadesEmissionsGlobal EconomyEnergy Use Author:Alex Steffen
“If you set yourself a goal for energy usage in your house, if you have to look at a graph on your phone, you probably won't change your behavior. But if you have a clock on the wall that changes color from green to red if you're using more energy than you've planned, then that actually can change your behavior. There are a lot of things to be done in that world that actually have an impact on our daily lives.” IfsWorldLooksDoneHouseEnergyGoalColorWallBehaviorRedGreenImpactPhonesClockDaily LifeUsageGraphs Author:Werner Vogels