“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
“Whoever controls your energy controls your destiny. 100 percent renewable energy is 100 percent American.” EnergyDestinyPercentOur DestinyYour DestinyRenewable EnergyControl Your Destiny Author:Mark Ruffalo
“Under [Tim] Cook's leadership, Apple is now using 100 percent renewable energy in the U.S. and China, and it's worked to improve conditions at its manufacturing plants in China.” EnergyConditionsPercentPlantChinaCooksApplesManufacturingRenewable Energy Author:Laura Sydell
“The technology is available to us today to begin the transition to 100 percent renewable energy. What is keeping us from making that transition is nothing more than misinformation, a lack of knowledge by most people of what is available, and an unwillingness on the part of many of our politicians for either ideological slavishness or something more self-serving, like major campaign contributions from the oil and gas corporations or from utilities who enjoy the monopoly they have on our energy systems.” PeopleSelfTodayEnergyEnjoyTechnologyPoliticianMajorsPercentAvailableOilCampaignsCorporationsContributionGasServingTransitionMonopolyUtilityIdeologicalRenewable EnergyMisinformationSelf ServingOil And GasLack Of KnowledgeCampaign Contributions Author:Mark Ruffalo
“The fact that solar has gone down 80 percent since 2008 is astonishing. Wind is perhaps not coming down as quickly. Lack of storage - batteries - is a bottleneck. That makes it very difficult to put large amounts of renewable energy on the grid.” FactsEnergyDifficultGoneWindAmountPercentAstonishingBatteriesRenewable EnergyStorageGridsBottlenecks Author:Christiana Figueres
“I'm the one candidate that can really stand up for what it is that the American people are really clamoring for. And that means jobs, an emergency jobs program. We call for the creation of 20 million jobs, to solve the emergency of climate change, and we call for 100 percent clean, renewable energy by 2030.” PeopleMeanJobsEnergyMillionsCreationPercentProgramCleanClimateClimate ChangeSolveCandidatesEmergenciesRenewable Energy Author:Jill Stein
“Moving to 100 percent renewable energy means we no longer need and can no longer justify wars for oil.” NeedsMeanWarMovingEnergyPercentOilJustifyRenewable Energy Author:Jill Stein