The nuclear approach I’m involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There’s a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true – many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions.

The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we’re not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.

As soon as a redwood is cut down or burned, it sends up a crowd of eager, hopeful shoots, which, if allowed to grow, would in a few decades attain a height of a hundred feet, and the strongest of them would finally become giants as great as the original tree.

Sweden is not a green paradise, it has one of the biggest carbon footprints.

We’ve gotta become the Martians. I’m a Martian – I tell you to become Martians. And we’ve gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.

A company shouldn’t get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn’t last.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.

I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

More businesses should be following Apple’s stance in encouraging more investment in sustainability.

Nothing is being done to stop the climate and ecological emergency from happening and to secure the future wellbeing for future generations.

Regardless of what our national credit rating is, people will always want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, fuel for their cars, and clothes on their backs.

Every once in a while, I get mad. ‚The Lorax‘ came out of my being angry. The ecology books I’d read were dull… In ‚The Lorax,‘ I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.

I’ve actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don’t mean hybrid, I mean fully electric.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Canada is rich in hydrocarbons and other natural resources… India’s requirements and Canada’s surplus are a perfect match.

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

I don’t know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way – all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup – all the time. When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

I’m really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don’t even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.

I’m glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That’s cool.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

The real minimum wage is zero.

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

As you know, low demand and high supply means a drop in value of anything, including the dollar.

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

I’m an energy vampire. I just suck off everybody’s energy. But I give it back.

I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.

What do you think a stimulus is? It’s spending – that’s the whole point! Seriously.

We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel.

The first rap CD that I had, it was so different for me. The energy, the wordplay, all that caught my attention, and I liked it.

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling.

Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.

I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it’s possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples‘ money.

People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.

I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he’s got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.

In just a few hundred years, we will have to cover the entire surface of the Earth in solar cells if we want to continue to grow our energy usage.

You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.

Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

You should be attacking the carbon emissions, period, and whether it’s cap-and-trade or carbon tax or whatever, that’s the realm in which we should be playing.

We get the exciting result that the total energy of the universe is zero. Why this should be so is one of the great mysteries – and therefore one of the important questions of physics. After all, what would be the use of studying physics if the mysteries were not the most important things to investigate?

The redwood is the glory of the Coast Range. It extends along the western slope, in a nearly continuous belt about ten miles wide, from beyond the Oregon boundary to the south of Santa Cruz, a distance of nearly four hundred miles, and in massive, sustained grandeur and closeness of growth surpasses all the other timber woods of the world.

I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, ‚Oh, I agree with you completely Vivienne. Yes, climate change, it’s definitely happening,‘ but they don’t feel that they can do anything about it; they don’t even think ‚Well let’s stop it!‘

The true cost to the world of a burger is far greater than the money you hand over to buy it.