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

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

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

Frank Outlaw

The country imagines who its future competitors are most likely to be. And looming large on that horizon is China. China is short on energy … Russia only has energy …
Most countries don’t have energy strategies. There is plenty of energy policies, plenty of energy regulations. There are even energy philosophies and enthusiasms. But energy strategies are in short supply.

P Ellis, Boston Consulting Group, BBC If . . . the lights go out, March 2004

This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through radioactive materials and a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels.

Lyndon Johnson, 1965

Understanding environmental interactions involves some of the most difficult issues in engineering, chemistry, physics and computer science. Regrettably, many environmental students aren’t interested in the hard stuff; they want to influence policy. This emphasis occurs in a wide range of colleges. As an example, at Princeton we have an endowment to support ‘a Freshman Seminar in environmental studies, exploring environmental issues primarily through literary, philosophical, ethical, spiritual, or other humanistic perspectives.’ We have elevated scientific ignorance to an art form.

Kenneth Deffeyes

If it is to benefit humanity, concern for our planet and the future of our civilization needs to be matched with an understanding of the facts.

Richard Garwin and Georges Charpak

Energy and persistence alter all things.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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