Hope & Strategies
Change is difficult but possible. There are many possibilities, solutions and strategies for getting there.
"Mother Nature puts a time limit on how long we can dither and procrastinate" before taking action. "Several vulnerable elements in earth ...
"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced." -- James Baldwin
"...History will not judge us by how much economic growth we achieve in the immediate years ahead, nor by how much we expand material consum ...
“Mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdo ...
The bad news: we are causing it.
The good news: we can stop it.
"Action is the antidote for despair.—"American folk singer Joan Baez.
Climate = the canvas on which 21st C history will be painted.
"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 ...
Saying 'stopping the Keystone pipeline won't stop global warming,' is like a civil rights skeptic saying in 1960, 'Why Woolworth's lunch cou ...
"Clean up Your Own Mess" -- Robert Fulghum
"Cleaning up after ourselves generally is neither easy nor fun, and we usually don't l ...
We're like the overweight patient that goes to the doctor and learns his cholesterol is too high. He doesn't die immediately—but until he ch ...
"Are we going to go down in history as the people who saved the bankers and let the biosphere go down?" —George Monbiot
Banks, insurers and big investors are beginning to price climate risk into their decisions. This will accelerate the shift to low carbon ene ...
"The fact that humans are causing climate change is good news. That means we can do something about it." - NASA scientist Robert Cahalan
China has succeeded in growing its economy and lifting more people out of poverty, while reducing its CO2 emissions per unit of GDP (carbon ...
"A million small things got us into this climate crisis, and millions of actions will get us out of it." - Patrick Gonzalez, climate scienti ...
It will take generations to decarbonise the world's economies. When it's over for us, the next generation will have to pick up the baton and ...
"If you want to change the world for the better, first you have to change the story."
"It's not enough to care; we must link our concern to each other & act collectively...'1,000 stallions unconnected cannot move a baby carria ...
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 task of reducing carbon emissions seems enormous, but every journey starts with a single step. You can reduce your carbon emissions by i ...
"There is a great market opportunity for innovation. We going to go from green vs. gold to green = gold."—James Bradfield Moody.
"Anyone who hears this: your job for the rest of your life is to make the impossible possible."—Dave 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 ...
"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."—Martin Luther King.
"Hope is a verb with its sleeves rolled up." - Dr. David W. Orr, Professor of Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin College, Ohio.
"(To truly resolve climate change), there are no silver bullets, only silver buckshot." - Bill McKibben author & Founder of 350.org
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 & ...
"Once people understand climate protection puts money in your pocket, the political resistance will melt faster than the glaciers." - Amory ...
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 ...
"The more people with visible tattoos who advocate for clean energy, the more success it will have in Washington. You win the tattooed vote ...
"We have everything we need to face this urgent challenge. All it takes is political will. And in our democracy, political will is a renewab ...