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"A worldwide renewable energy program is created, paving the way toward a third industrial revolution that makes use of solar and other renewable energy sources to transform the global economy, provide clean water, and lift marginalized populations out of the vicious cycles of poverty. • Agriculture is restored to a place of primary importance in the world economy, both for producing staple foods and for growing energy crops and raw materials for communities and industry." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"All served organic milk, and half ran on renewable energy. All newly built sites use piping made with recycled material. The McDonald's in Sweden recycled 97 percent of its solid waste.40 One McDonald's in that country sells biodiesel made from the cooking oil used for their fries. So why don't we get organic ice cream and all-natural beef at McDonald's in the United States? Because we're slobs, and we don't care. We just keep getting fat on the chemical beef and corn that we're being fed while our health declines rapidly after age fifty." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"A reality check Many books on global warming end with some rather platitudinous sentences about renewable energy, as if the authors believe - rather like Disney's Blue Fairy - that simply wishing for something and believing in it is enough to make it come true. My feeling is that if it were that easy to move away from fossil fuels, we would have done so already, or at least be heading rapidly in the right direction. Instead, as we saw above, the world is moving rapidly in the wrong direction, and seems set to continue doing so." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"Those investments were in renewable energy like wind and solar power, energy-efficiency technologies, and updating old factories to eliminate emissions like hydrofluorocarbons, which contribute to erosion of the ozone layer. The market has become so lucrative for the Chinese that the country is expected to open its own carbon exchange in Beijing by the end of 2007. "China is facing a choice to either go one way on its environmental path or another," commented Yingling Liu, with the World Resources Institute's China Watch project. "The choices are now being made...." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"Major institutions, government agencies and entire industries can create markets for non-toxic products and drive down costs for bio-based plastics, green chemistry, renewable energy and other solutions for the future. The billion-dollar cosmetics industry, of course, could be a major force for positive ¦0 \l Green... Schools: GreenSchools.net Hospitals: NoHarm.org Buildings: HealthyBuilding.Net Business: GreenGuide.com Science: SEHN.org Computers: ComputerTakeBack.com News: EnvironmentalHealthNews.org Teens rally for safe cosmetics around Union Square in San Francisco." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"A variety of organizations offer the credits, which use our donations to support renewable energy projects such as green power plants or clean waste disposal, as a means of contributing something positive to balance out the carbon emissions generated during our flight. One organization is finding a way to use airlines as an opportunity to effect positive change. Airline Ambassadors International, which was started by airline industry employees, organizes trips to hand-deliver food, clothing, and medical supplies to people in need." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "The University of California, Berkeley, and the National renewable energy Laboratory (NREL) are working on making hydrogen in a new way: with algae. The process works in the lab, and it does not require a genetically altered organism — the scientists identified a certain common green alga (Chlamydomonas reinhardtii) that excretes hydrogen gas under certain conditions. They describe the alga's hydrogen-making capacity as a "molecular switch" they can turn on or off." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "If we do that and keep working hard to develop clean power sources, we could very well have a planet that runs largely on renewable energy by the dawn of the next century. If we combine conservation and clean energy with some of the other tools in this book, the next generation may well live in a solar-powered world. In the meantime, pushing the efficiency envelope in our own lives not only helps us save money but also changes the world around us. It primes the market for more efficient products. It builds the market for green-power utilities." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Support renewable energy. During the 1980s, financial incentives and research funds for renewable energy were cut by as much as 80 percent. renewable energy has been treated as a "fringe" technology and dismissed as too expensive and not competitive with current energy sources. Were the full cost of using fossil fuels calculated, it would include the expensive problems they cause: global warming, oil spills, acid rain, air pollution, and damage to human health and ecosystems." - H. Patricia Hynes, Earth Right (Get the book.)

"The Chinese Politburo has committed to doubling its capacity for renewable energy to 16% of national consumption by 2020, an extraordinarily ambitious goal given the Politburo's simultaneous ambition to quadruple the country's gross domestic product by that same year. The different approaches between Europe and America, in helping China meet the greatest environmental challenge of our time, were highlighted at a three-day strategic economic dialogue between top U.S. and Chinese officials during the height of the Christmas season in 2006." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"If you're going to go to renewable energy, the cheapest energy there is, it's a real challenge. You have to become energy efficient to teduce energy usage. These successes built upon themselves." Impressed by the progress of Ray and his team, we asked where businesses of the future are headed: "I think with any paradigm shift, the early movers win. You always have the early movers, then you have the fast followers, then at the other end you have the never-followers, and that's who the regulatory system is for, to push them yy ^ here along to catch up." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"In the process, China has become a playing field for international influence driven partly by the desire to address the country's huge contribution to climate change, and partly for positioning in anticipation of the economic bonanza that is already beginning to come from the development of alternative, renewable energy technologies. On both counts, the United States is falling behind the European Union. Beijing already sees that many new rules governing China's economic future are being written in Brussels and not Washington." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"High oil prices also make renewable energy more competitive, spurring further investments in solar and wind. But fossil fuels are not only oil. Coal, still used to generate most of the world's electricity, is a larger contributor to greenhouse gas emissions than oil - and there's enough coal in the world to last another couple of centuries at least, busting any reasonable emissions budget many times over. Coal can also be turned into synthetic fuels - a technique pioneered by the Nazis and later continued by the apartheid regime in South Africa. " - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"Foundation and we leveraged that amount into one billion dollars of renewable energy subsidies," Suzuki told me. "Of course, we're just at the beginning of the transformation." The Suzuki Foundation has discussed SWAG with the Union of Concerned Scientists in the United States and Australian Conservation Fund to spread the message. The message is sweeping over the world. The issue is how fast we can go." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"You don't directly receive that renewable energy, since it all goes into a kind of melting pot. But your utility will use your fees to build new wind farms, solar arrays, or other systems, which helps transition the electricity infrastructure away from the oil economy. If there are no renewable sources or green-power programs in your area, you can stil do your part by purchasing renewable-energy certificates (RECs, also known as green tags). By doing so, you are funding the advancement of renewable power in other areas that have such programs. How do I find green power?" - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Providing tax credits for conservation and renewable energy sources has had tremendously positive influences on consumer behavior and corporations. Many of society's leading-edge conservation projects today were initiated, in part, as a response to societal rewards via credits and deductions. Consumers right now often receive rebates for buying energy-efficient appliances, solar panels, or a hybrid; this stimulates the market and encourages manufacturers to adopt even higher standards. It's a good way for government to give citizens back some of their money. ?" - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "A complete and up-to-date list of state and local programs is maintained by the Database of State Incentives for renewable energy at www.dsireusa.org. Visit www.akeena.net for additional help with a solar system and information about state and federal programs. "Today, in California, where we are famous for the sun, we are going to put the positive benefits of that sun to good use," Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said in February 2005 when he announced his political support for SB 1, the state solar power bill that offers California a great deal of energy independence." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Up through the cord comes new "renewable energy" that meshes with your own. Now imagine opening a funnel, extending upward from your crown chakra, allowing golden light to flow downward to you. You are the central meeting place of all this glittering positive light. Let it circulate, filling up all the cells and molecules ?feel them responding ?refreshing your energy body. Extend this golden light out to the edge of your expanded energy body. Take your imaginary hand brush now and clean away any residue or negative energies from each of your seven main chakras ?" - Jackie Lapin, The Art of Conscious Creation: How You Can Transform the World (Get the book.)

"Evidence became stronger by the late eighties that renewable energy sources (water, wind, sunlight) could produce more usable energy than nuclear plants, which were dangerous and expensive, and produced radioactive wastes that could not be safely disposed of. Yet the Reagan and Bush administrations made deep cuts (under Reagan, a 90 percent cut) in research into renewable energy possibilities. In June 1992 more than a hundred countries participated in the Earth Summit environmental conference in Brazil." - Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Get the book.)

"We've approached it in the round with the idea of optimizing the total system, which means we're not sucking every drop of blood out of waste savings, we're reinvesting some of it into renewable energy and recycling technologies. In my view, the triple bottom line all comes together in one superior financial bottom line if you do it fight. And that is what will attract other industries. "Customers ultimately determine your success, and this is a way to engage customers on a different level. Your people make a difference. This is the way to galvanize people around a higher purpose." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.) "Instead, they count on the power of the sun, wind, and tides as well as other clean, renewable energy sources for their energy needs. The Right-Side Up world values diversity and self-expression. Communities celebrate the human spirit through their art forms, which have become a way of life, blended harmoniously with spirituality. Humankind rejoices in the spirit within everyone and everything—and they have evolved beyond their fascination with darkness and evil." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.) "With solar panels, almost every rooftop can become a source of renewable energy and every home self-sufficient. How does it work? Silicon wafers capture photons from sunlight and convert them to DC power, which is then transformed into 120 volt AC power and connected to your existing electrical system and to the local electrical grid. When the sun is shining, you can generate more power than you consume; your meter may actually spin backwards." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"Now that system is being emulated on a grander scale, in the carbon-credit trading markets used by the signatories of Kyoto, to channel billions of dollars into renewable energy. The United States refuses to participate in these markets. The Bush administration's refusal to sign the Kyoto accord is shifting business opportunities from U.S. to European innovators. Qi Ye of Tsinghua University told me he has been traveling often to London and Frankfurt to drum up investment opportunities in the carbon-offset markets there, apparently to great effect." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"During the 1980s, financial incentives and research funds for renewable energy were cut by as much as 80 percent. renewable energy has been treated as a "fringe" technology and dismissed as too expensive and not competitive with current energy sources. Were the full cost of using fossil fuels calculated, it would include the expensive problems they cause: global warming, oil spills, acid rain, air pollution, and damage to human health and ecosystems." - H. Patricia Hynes, Earth Right (Get the book.)

"There is a set of erroneous popular notions to the effect that renewable energy systems such as solar power, wind power, and the like are available as freestanding replacements for our fossil-fuel-based system, that they are pollution-free and problem free —that renewables represent something akin to perpetual motion, a gift from the sun. The operation of a solar electric system, like the one I run on an Adirondack lake, does not itself produce pollution, but the manufacturing of the components certainly does." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "Fossil fuels allowed the human race to operate highly complex systems at gigantic scales. renewable energy sources are not compatible with those systems and scales. Renewables will not be able to take the place of oil and gas in running those systems. The systems themselves will have to go. Even many "environmentalists" and "greens" of our day seem to think that all we have to do is switch inputs." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"Levi's is introducing organic cotton jeans. Vanity Fair recently published a green issue."3 Where the dollars flow, the largest corporations are sure to follow — and the inevitable question: how green is green going to be once Wall Street gets hold of it? The question hung heavy in the air, alongside the essential-oil fumes in the aisles of the world's largest trade show for natural and organic products. The Expo still attracts a diverse mix of small and owner-operated companies built on sweat equity and principles of social responsibility." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"Most of England's renewable energy comes from hydroelectric dams which often destroy the landscape and wildlife. "Britain is reportedly on track to meet its commitment of 12.5 per cent" reduction in carbon emissions, says Zac Goldsmith, editor of The Ecologist, "but our government still refuses to take real action to combat the problem...Instead, Tony Blair has promised to spend ten times less on renewable energy investments—necessary, he has said, to avoid catastrophe—than he spent on a plastic dome." - Brian O'Leary, Reinheriting the Earth: Awakening to Sustainable Solutions and Greater Truths (Get the book.)

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