Metaphors & SoundbitesTags:solutions
Renewables too expensive? Navy Secy. Mabus: "Every new technology is more expensive. What if we hadn’t started using computers because the ...
The Marines are quietly leading the way on efficiency and renewables.
"Our priority is to save lives by reducing the number of Marines ...
Mitigation costs too much? This is like saying 'fixing the dodgy brakes on my car costs too much, so I'm going to ignore the problem.' ...
"...I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait 'til oil and coal run out before we t ...
"Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating nor ...
In climate communication, "We need to stop being Chicken Little and start being The Little Engine That Could." Less of 'the sky is falling ...
"Nature favours those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive" — James Lovelock
The Dinosaur Economy is an energy intense economy that relies primarily on fossil fuels such as oil, coal and natural gas that are derived f ...
China has succeeded in growing its economy and lifting more people out of poverty, while reducing its CO2 emissions per unit of GDP (carbon ...
"Anyone who hears this: your job for the rest of your life is to make the impossible possible."—Dave Roberts (Grist).
Just as rebuilding your house in a week would cost far more than rebuilding it slowly, so hasty remodeling of the global energy system would ...
"You don't have to believe in climate change to solve it. Everything we do to raise energy efficiency, will make money, improve security & ...
Climate change is like one of those Hollywood disaster movies that pit obstructionists against ordinary people who become heroes. Those movi ...
A straight-through tax can help to lower carbon emissions by reducing taxes on work (e.g. income tax and payroll tax) while increasing taxes ...
As renewable technologies jostle for position in the growing low carbon economy, commentators are asking 'Who is the fairest electricity gen ...
"Last month, more than 70 European companies, including Ikea and Coca Cola, asked the European Union to aim for more ambitious carbon cuts." ...
"I have long supported a sharp reduction in payroll taxes, with the differences made up in CO2 taxes. We should tax what we burn, not what ...
The U.S. is sitting on a vast, untapped reserve of cheap, clean energy: the energy lost every day to leakage, outdated infrastructure and ...
"If you want to change the world for the better, first you have to change the story."
This is not Gen X, Y or Z. It is Gen U - the U-turn generation whose task is to see global emissions slow, and over the next 30-40 years, ...
"The cheapest carbon to remove from the atmosphere, is the carbon we don't put there in the first place."
"This past month, I spent more beer & pistachios than I did on gas & electric. And I am not a big drinker. It’s amazing how much (solar) c ...
"The more people with visible tattoos who advocate for clean energy, the more success it will have in Washington. You win the tattooed vote ...
In order to prevent climate change, the world has to switch from high-carbon, polluting, power generation; to new, low-carbon generating cap ...
Banks, insurers and big investors are beginning to price climate risk into their decisions. This will accelerate the shift to low carbon ene ...
"Imagine if I was scolding my kids not to pee on the toilet seat while paying them per-dribble. I'm just saying."—David Roberts, Grist.
There's no one "silver bullet" that can solve our energy and climate challenge in one shot. Instead, it's going to take a lot of little bu ...
"Numbers numb, jargon jars, and nobody ever marched on Washington because of a pie chart. Stories get stored. And when you can change the st ...
"A million small things got us into this climate crisis, and millions of actions will get us out of it." - Patrick Gonzalez, climate scienti ...
"(To truly resolve climate change), there are no silver bullets, only silver buckshot." - Bill McKibben author & Founder of 350.org
When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like nails.
A corollary: Show me a problem that is obviously not "a nail" an ...
"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."—Martin Luther King.
The task of reducing carbon emissions seems enormous, but every journey starts with a single step. You can reduce your carbon emissions by i ...
"Carbon offsets...are like pushing your food around your plate to give the impression you've eaten it."
To stay below the blood-alcohol limit, we should drink no more than six standard drinks. To keep world temperature increase below 2C we must ...
"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and to do these other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that ...
"What do jet engines, computers, transistors, the internet, and the Global Positioning System (GPS) have in common? They all owe their exist ...
It's the Olympics. USA has a chance to win gold in the Clean Energy Race event. Unfortunately, she is falling behind other countries.
In New York City, pumps at some sewage stations have been raised to higher elevations, and the city government has undertaken extensive plan ...
What could be more futuristic than when the world listened with baited breath as astronauts talked to NASA control in Houston? Well, the fu ...
Little House on the Prairie families were resourceful and self-reliant. Today's smart power grids and solar PV will democratise electricity ...
Continuing to burn fossil fuels in order to maintain the growth economy is like keeping on drinking to avoid a hangover.
"Once people understand climate protection puts money in your pocket, the political resistance will melt faster than the glaciers." - Amory ...
Better to adapt than mitigate? This is like saying 'It's better to smoke, get cancer, then spend years in chemo- and radiotherapy, than to ...
"Before we start geoengineering we have to raise the following question: are we sufficiently talented to take on what might become the onero ...
"I have nothing more to do with oil. I am producing my own energy -- solar energy," Larry Hagman (the actor who played oil baron J.R. Ewing ...
" 'Clean coal' represents a breakthrough —in the marketing of coal. But it does not represent a breakthrough in the burning of coal." ...