“Government and business must come together on the interlinked issues of conservation, economic development and renewable energy. There are literally thousands of businesses, many in the tourism industry, that depend on an intact marine environment for their long-term survival.” LongGovernmentTogetherEnergyTermIssuesEnvironmentEconomicDependsDevelopmentIndustrySurvivalLong TermConservationMarineTourismRenewable EnergyEconomic DevelopmentGovernment And BusinessTourism Industry Author:Richard Branson
“There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources.” NeedsEnergyNaturalWindSourceIndustryOilFuelGasCoalFossilsUrgentSuppliesFossil FuelRenewable EnergyNatural GasEnergy SourcesBurning Fossil FuelsWind PowerRenewable Energy SourcesWind EnergyGeothermalGeothermal Energy Author:Bill McKibben
“With each month that passes, a solar panel gets 2 or 3 percent cheaper. So while we're holding the fossil fuel industry in check, the engineers in the renewable energy world are undercutting them from the other side.” WorldEnergySidesMonthsIndustryPercentChecksFuelEngineersFossilsCheaperFossil FuelRenewable EnergySolar PanelsEach Month Author:Bill McKibben
“We're clearly coming to the end of the fossil fuel era. We have the technology to shift to renewable energy, we have the will of the people. The only thing that's keeping us back is the fossil fuel industry's hold on our political system. That's what we need to change.” PeopleNeedsEndsPoliticalEnergyTechnologyIndustryErasFuelFossilsFossil FuelPolitical SystemsNeed A ChangeRenewable Energy Author:Mark Ruffalo
“The biggest industry hoax is that the United States can't move to renewable energy now. It's a lie.” StatesMovingLyingEnergyUnitedUnited StatesIndustryRenewable EnergyHoaxes Author:Mark Ruffalo
“I am grateful to the fossil fuel industry for bringing us the concentrated carbon that took us through the Industrial Revolution and through the technological revolution and brought us to the gateway of the renewable energy revolution, or what I call the sunlight revolution. But that is where we must part ways. It's the natural order.” WayOrderEnergyNaturalRevolutionIndustryGratefulFuelSunlightTechnologicalCarbonFossilsFossil FuelRenewable EnergyGatewaysIndustrial RevolutionI Am GratefulNatural Order Author:Mark Ruffalo
“With living wage jobs, basically 20 million of them to help jump-start a sustainable and healthy economy, with an insured, just transition, for example, for workers in both the fossil fuel and in the weapons industry, because they all need to transition to sustainable forms of production. This is also our answer to the departure of manufacturing jobs and good jobs by creating the manufacturing base here for clean renewable energy and the efficiency systems and public transportation to put these workers to work in jobs that are actually good for them.” NeedsHelpingJobsFormEnergyAnswersMillionsEconomyExampleIndustryHealthyCreatingWeaponsCleanWorkersProductionsFuelTransitionEfficiencyGood JobFossilsManufacturingTransportationFossil FuelDepartureRenewable EnergyLiving WagePublic Transportation Author:Jill Stein