The average household spends $1,400 each year on energy bills. By choosing Energy Star-qualified products, consumers can cut this by 30 percent, saving about $400 each year.

Alliance to Save Energy, 2005

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope; and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Robert F Kennedy

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

Ralph Nader

The energy crisis is certainly one of the most complex subjects ever put before the media, and through them, to the American public. It encompasses international relations, economics, science, and that most unpredictable of groups, the consuming public.

Walker, H E: The other crisis - energy and the media: Vital Speeches of the Day: Vol 40 No 18

These “negawatts” have been every bit as valuable in economic terms as the “produced watts” of energy they replaced. With today’s energy prices a negawatt of energy savings costs about half of what it costs to produce the same amount of energy. The cheapest, most competitive, cleanest and most secure form of energy for the European Union thus remains saved energy.

Andris Piebalgs, Energy Commissioner

The difference between a car that gets 20 MPG (miles per gallon) and one that gets 30 MPG amounts to $1,800 over 5 years, assuming gas costs $1.80 per gallon and one drives 12,000 miles a year.

Alliance to Save Energy, 2005

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain of success than to take a lead in the introduction of a new order of things, because innovation has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.

Machiavelli, The Prince (c. 1515)

I have always consistently opposed high-tension and alternating systems of electric lighting … not only on account of danger, but because of their general unreliability and unsuitability for any general system of distribution.

Thomas Edison, 1889

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