Give me a place to stand and with a lever I will move the whole world.
Archimedes

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Nimby: Not In My Back Yard
Nimto: Not In My Term of Office
Banana: Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything
CAVE people: Citizens Against Virtually Everything
NOPE: Not On Planet Earth

Ronnie Belmans

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Don’t wait for anyone to deputize you or authorize you or empower you. You have to just start out with yourself…and put one foot in front of the other.
Hazel Henderson

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Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the President and the Congress to govern. This difficult effort will be the “moral equivalent of war” — except that we will be uniting our efforts to build and not destroy.
I know that some of you may doubt that [...]

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According to some estimates, just turning off a monitor can save 75 percent of the overall energy consumption of a PC.
Graeme Wearden, ZDNET UK, October 2005

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It is often necessary to make decisions on the basis of information sufficient for action, but insufficient to satisfy the intellect.
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), German philosopher

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If we do it right, protecting the climate will yield not costs, but profits, not burdens but benefits, not sacrifice, but a higher standard of living.
Bill Clinton, October 1997

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