Denis Hayes Quotes About Environment

Quotes about: Environment

• Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours.

  Denis Hayes

  Running, Fun, Beer

• I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer.

  Denis Hayes

  Environmental, Economy, Individual

• By the year 2000, such renewable energy sources could provide 40 percent of the global energy budget; by 2025, humanity could obtain 75 percent of its energy from solar resources.

  Denis Hayes

  Years, Wind, Humanity

  Denis Hayes (1977). “Energy: The Solar Prospect”, Worldwatch Inst

• Asbestos, EMFs, and CFCs have given us a degree of humility. When yesterday's "triumph of modern chemistry" turns out instead to be today's deadly threat to the global environment, it is legitimate to ask what else we don't know.

  Denis Hayes

  Humility, Yesterday, Environmental

• Our goal is to turn solar electric technologies into a commodity business like computer chips, and make them ubiquitous in the built environment. I'd couple this with a huge commitment to fundamental research in nanostructure to goose the next generation of more efficient, cheaper, dematerialized cells. And if I'm truly czar, I'd emphasize silicon technologies, as that approach is the one least likely to encounter material constraints in supplying an explosive global demand.

  Denis Hayes

  Couple, Commitment, Technology

  Source: therumpus.net

• By 1975 - and continuing to today - all Americans came to believe that they had a "right" to a safe, clean, healthy environment. When I grew up, no one seriously criticized the steel mills and paper mills for the deadly stench they produced - that was the smell of prosperity. In the modern society, no one would tolerate such conditions in an American city.

  Denis Hayes

  Believe, Cities, Smell

  "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Price, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.

• That said, I'm embarrassed and furious that so many coal-state Democrats in the U.S. Senate are paralyzing international progress to protect the short term interests of a dying industry that ravages the environment from mine to slag heap.

  Denis Hayes

  Progress, Dying, Coal

  "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Price, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.

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