Quotes by Denis Hayes

Denis Hayes

An acre of windy prairie could produce between $4,000 and 10,000 worth of electricity per year – which is far more than the value of the land’s crop of corn or wheat.

Energy

Land

Years

An aggressive building performance standard for all new buildings, and a set of performance requirements to be met by all buildings before they can be sold (when upgrades can be included in the new mortgage). These should encompass heating and cooling, lighting, and plug loads. Coupled with new efficiency standards for appliances, lights, and furnaces, this should reduce the energy consumption of new buildings by 50 percent, more or less immediately, and go on from there.

Energy

Goes On

Light

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.

Environmental

Humility

Yesterday

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.

Believe

Cities

Smell

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.

Humanity

Wind

Years

Earth Day gathered up those strands, and dozens more, and knitted them together in the public consciousness as “environmental” issues. The nation was pretty startled when 20 million people hit the streets. Congress, which had adjourned for the day to go back to its districts, was blown away.

Earth Day

Issues

People

f the government is going to put money into the automobile sector, it should break up GM and Chrysler as a condition of financial aid, and it should be even-handed in its treatment of start-up firms like Tesla, Miles, Fisker, and others. It would be terrible to kill the entrepreneurs who have taken great risks to bring new automotive technologies to market by pumping tax dollars into the behemoths that have done everything wrong for the last years.

Government

Taken

Technology

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

Economy

Environmental

Individual

I suppose I’d characterize myself as having a faith-based optimism. My faith is parental and Darwinian.

Faith Based

Optimism

Parental

I would love to see a fundamental re-thinking of whether we truly want to be the world’s largest debtor nation, feeding an insatiable desire for mall-crawling with cheaply made crap from all over the world.

Debtors

Desire

Thinking

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Attention

Beer

Believe

Car

Casting

Children

Cities

Coal

Creating

Cutting

Debtors

Desire

Dying

Earth Day

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Energy

Environmental

Faith Based

Fall

Finest

Goes On

Government

Humanity

Humility

Important

Individual

Iron

Issues

Jobs

Land

Light

Long

Mass

Military

Motivation

Obvious Things

Office

Optimism

Parental

Past

People

Problem

Progress

Reality

Running

Sea

Smart

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Quotes by Denis Hayes

Denis Hayes

An acre of windy prairie could produce between $4,000 and 10,000 worth of electricity per year – which is far more than the value of the land’s crop of corn or wheat.

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.

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.

Earth Day gathered up those strands, and dozens more, and knitted them together in the public consciousness as “environmental” issues. The nation was pretty startled when 20 million people hit the streets. Congress, which had adjourned for the day to go back to its districts, was blown away.

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

I suppose I’d characterize myself as having a faith-based optimism. My faith is parental and Darwinian.

I would love to see a fundamental re-thinking of whether we truly want to be the world’s largest debtor nation, feeding an insatiable desire for mall-crawling with cheaply made crap from all over the world.

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