“The money economy thus leaves a large ecological footprint, defined as the amount of land and resources required to meet a typical consumer's needs. For example, with only about 4% of the world's population, the United States, the largest money economy, consumes in excess of one-quarter of the world's energy and materials and generates in excess of 25 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.” WorldNeedsStatesEnergyUnitedUnited StatesEconomyLandExampleMaterialsAmountPercentResourcesPopulationDefinedConsumersGasQuartersExcessConsumerismTypicalEmissionsEcologicalFootprintOverconsumptionGreenhousesGreenhouse GasesEcological Footprints Author:Stuart L. Hart
“We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth while millions are hungry and dying. We are committed to living simply and sharing our time, energy, and material resources with those who are in need.” NeedsEnergyWealthPleasureMillionsOur LivesDyingMaterialsFameResourcesAimProfitCommittedDeterminedHungrySensualOur TimeConsumerismOverconsumptionSensual Pleasure Book:Being Peace Source: Being Peace
“Perhaps the heroic element in our natures is exhibited to the best advantage, not in going from success to success, and so on through a series of triumphs, but in gathering, on the very field of defeat itself, the materials for renewed efforts, and in proceeding, with no abatement of heart or energy, to form fresh designs upon the very ruins and ashes of blasted hopes. Yes, it is this indomitable persistence in a purpose, continued alike through defeat and success, that makes, more than aught else, the hero.” HeartFormPurposeEnergyEffortDesignFieldsMaterialsHeroElementsAdvantageSeriesDefeatRuinsTriumphPersistenceHeroicAshesGatheringProceedingIndomitable Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to pay the price. Our writers have either no personality and therefore no style or a false personality and therefore a bad style; they mistake prejudice for energy and accept the sensation of material well-being as a system of thought.” WellsCountryCharacterArtistEnergyPayMistakeAcceptingStyleWillingMaterialsPersonalitySucceedPrejudiceWell BeingSpokesSensationsGreat ArtFanaticismGreat ArtistPay The Price Author:Cyril Connolly
“It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed by susceptibility to the veriest minutiæ of experience, which it reproduces and constructs in fresh and fresh wholes; not the habitual confusion of provable fact with the fictions of fancy and transient inclination, but a breadth of ideal association which informs every material object, every incidental fact with far-reaching memories and storied residues of passion, bringing into new light the less obvious relations to human existence.” HumansFactsLightPassionEnergyImaginationMemoriesPowerfulExistenceFictionVisionCreativeObjectsMaterialsIdealsRelationObviousIntenseConfusionFancyReachingFedsAssociationInwardRepresentationConstructsInclinationHuman ExistenceHabitualTransientBreadthCreative EnergySusceptibility Author:George Eliot
“Let us ask... how things work at the level of on-going subjugation, at the level of those continuous and uninterrupted processes which subject our bodies, govern our gestures, dictate our behaviors, etc... we should try to discover how it is that subjects are gradually, progressively, really and materially constituted through a multiplicity of organisms, forces, energies, materials, desires, thoughts, etc. We should try to grasp subjection in its material instance as a constitution of subjects.” ShouldTryingBodyDesireAsksEnergyForceProcessLevelsPowerSubjectsMaterialsBehaviorConstitutionInstanceEtcGesturesOrganismsMultiplicitySubjectionSubjugation Author:Michel Foucault
“I think each album does have a different energy, otherwise you'd be doing the same thing again and not experimenting anew... Albums are such autobiographical material, not in the material but as an expression of what you're like at the time.” ThinkingDoeDifferentEnergyExpressionMaterialsAlbums Author:Kate Bush
“Doing the same things you did when the economy was good is not good enough. You will have to put more coals on the fire in a poor economy to get the same heat you received in a good economy. You must give more energy, more thought, more service, and get into positive thinking material more frequently. Become more selective about who you spend time with. Love a little more, hate a little less. Think about it. You can progressively move on an upward path toward any goal. The choice is yours as to who or what controls you!” ThinkingGivingLittlesEnoughMovingHateChoicesEnergyGoalPoorEconomyPathFirePositive ThinkingMaterialsHeatGood EnoughEnd TimesCoalSpend TimeNot Good EnoughSelective Author:Bob Proctor
“No age can have everthing and in material ways ours is more fortunate than any preceding one. Our ancestors appear to have mastered the art of living better than we are able to when an easy conscience, largely due to the unshaken faith of the time, left a marging of spiritual energy with which to enjoy life.” WayArtAgeAbleSpiritualEnergyLeftEasyEnjoyMaterialsConscienceDuesFortunateAncestorEnjoy LifeArt Of LivingTime LeftSpiritual EnergyLiving Better Author:Flora Thompson
“Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured.” WayKindEnergyAnimalMaterialsCapturedCagedSnowballCaged Animal Book:Midsummer Snowballs Source: Midsummer Snowballs
“There are at bottom but two possible religions--that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that which grows out of the observation of the material energies which operate in the external universe.” MenTwoReligionUniverseEnergyGrowsMoralMaterialsShapesBottomObservationCommandmentsNature Of Man Book:Short Studies on Great Subjects Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects
“I get my most creative energy after a show, so I love to go back to the hotel and compose new material. I generally do it in a rush. I have to get it out, otherwise I can't sleep.” I CanShowsEnergySleepCreativeMaterialsHotelCan't SleepCreative EnergyI Can't Sleep Author:Jason Mraz
“Life solves its problems with well-adapted designs, life-friendly chemistry and smart material and energy use.” WellsUseProblemEnergyDesignMaterialsSmartSolveFriendlyChemistryAdaptedEnergy Use Author:Janine Benyus
“Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials.” DoneEnergyMaterialsElectricityDistributionRailroads Author:Charles Proteus Steinmetz
“It happens sometimes that the material itself carries things you have not fully planned. The footage has its own right, its own life, its own vibrancy and energy in it.” SometimesHappensEnergyMaterialsCarrieVibrancy Author:Werner Herzog
“God made us angels of energy, encased in solids - currents of life dazzling through a material bulb of flesh.” MadeEnergyMaterialsAngelCurrentsFleshDazzlingBulbs Author:Paramahansa Yogananda
“It is much more accurate to identify the factors of production as know-how (that is genetic information structure), energy, and materials, for, as we have seen, all processes of production involve the direction of energy by some know-how structure toward the selection, transportation, and transformation of materials into the product” KnowsEnergyProcessKnow HowInformationMaterialsProductsTransformationStructureProductionsFactorsAccurateSelectionTransportationFactors Of Production Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“The social dynamics of human history, even more than that of biological evolution, illustrate the fundamental principle of ecological evolution - that everything depends on everything else. The nine elements that we have described in societal evolution of the three families of phenotypes - the phyla of things, organizations and people, the genetic bases in knowledge operating through energy and materials to produce phenotypes, and the three bonding relations of threat, integration and exchange - all interact on each other.” PeopleHumansThreeEnergySocialPrinciplesProduceMaterialsDependsEvolutionElementsOrganizationBasesRelationFundamentalsThreatNineIntegrationHuman HistoryEcologicalDynamicsBondingFundamental PrinciplesBiological Evolution Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“In order to develop the willpower it takes to sacrifice, you must first realize that spending all your time and energy pursuing material comforts means you will eventually suffer. It's all about positive and negative consequences. It's very important to be aware that there are long-term consequences [for every action].” FirstsMeanLongImportantActionSufferingOrderEnergyTermRealizingSacrificeMaterialsComfortConsequenceNegativeSpendingLong TermWillpowerTime And EnergyNegative Consequences Author:Dalai Lama
“It was with the Industrial Revolution, as society plunged ever more eagerly into the conquest of material riches and bent all its energies to the accumulation of goods, that material poverty became a major problem. Obviously, this meant abandonment or downgrading of spiritual values, virtue, etc. To share or not to share in the increase of the collective wealth-this was the Number One question. It was the desire to acquire wealth that prompted the poor to start fighting.” ProblemSpiritualDesireValuesFightingEnergyWealthPoorNumbersPovertyVirtueShareMaterialsRevolutionMajorsIncreaseRichesAcquireEtcCollectivesGoodsConsumerismBentConquestAbandonmentAccumulationOverconsumptionIndustrial RevolutionMajor ProblemsSpiritual ValuesDowngrading Author:Jacques Ellul
“When you're in love with the work, the energy comes more naturally. You want to wake up in the morning to write more material, or to go on stage and give every shred of emotion you have.” WantGivingWritingEnergyEmotionMorningStageMaterialsGoes OnWake Up Author:Matthew Hussey