- Electric Cars
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- Nov 07, 2020
Energy Quotes
Effort, and the direction it takes.
This set treats energy both literally and as a metaphor for drive, from a historical account of wartime industrial effort to one person's plain admission of having plenty of interest and desire to spare. Readers focused on infrastructure topics may prefer our Energy Policy quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cities are responsible for the vast majority of the creation of the economy. They're also places into which we pour the vast majority of resources, the vast majority of energy and the places where a huge percentage of the decisions about how systems are built and how products designed, etc., happen.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
For carbon-neutral cities, there are things worth talking about in how our consumption patterns can change - sharing goods, etc. - but those are a fraction of the impacts of transportation and building energy use. If we need to choose priority actions, the most important things are to densify, provide transit, and green the buildings.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that we are going to be able to take our entire society as it currently works and simply change the source of energy and make it sustainable is not actually congruent with reality.
- Clean Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of different ways of building a prosperous society, and some of them use much less energy than others. And it is possible and more practical to talk about rebuilding systems to use much less energy than it is to think about trying to meet greater demands of energy through clean energy alone.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The denser places get, the lower the amount of energy people use to get around it.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cities generate most of the global economy, and most of its energy use, resource demands and climate emissions. How we build cities over the next decades will largely determine whether we can deliver a bright green future.
- Enable
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- Nov 07, 2020
By fundamentally changing how we design the places and systems that enable our daily lives, we can slash emissions way beyond the immediate carbon savings - because our own personal emissions are just the tip of a vast iceberg of energy and resources consumed far from our view.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and games, who are willing to take the risks of being totally open, of listening, of responding with the whole heart. How much we can do for each other.
- Price
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- Nov 07, 2020
As technology keeps improving, the price of oil keeps rising, and the ice keeps melting, Arctic energy is bound to be an increasingly bigger part of the global mix.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
It wasn't until I stopped worrying about my own validation and finally refocused my energy on things I could actually change that I finally grew as a person and as a professional.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Apparently, my mother still thought I had too much energy so she signed me up for a local theatre group, marking the beginning of my career.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've not been anywhere in Central or South America before. The closest I've been is Cancun and Cabo in Mexico. But I think I'd love the culture, the sprit, and the energy of Brazil.
- Contemporary World
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- Nov 07, 2020