Denis Hayes
Denis Hayes
Denis Allen Hayes is an environmental advocate and proponent of solar power. He rose to prominence in 1970 as the coordinator for the first Earth Day...
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Whether you are buying a car or casting a ballot, choosing a job or planning a family, follow your moral compass. Don't let others define you. Don't let advertisers mold you; don't let zealots ensnare you; don't let conventional wisdom trap you....you are part of a much larger whole.
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Under communism, prices were not allowed to reflect economic reality. Under capitalism, prices don't reflect ecological reality. In the long run, the capitalist flaw -- if uncorrected -- may prove to be the more catastrophic.
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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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Make Earth Day Every Day.” While we might not always live up to this ideal, I try to keep this quote from Denis Hayes, founder of the Earth Day Network and president of Seattle’s Bullitt Foundation, in mind when I need a little extra motivation to be a better environmentalist: “Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours.
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We presently have the technology ... fuel cells, solar cells, hydrogen ... the opportunities are amazing for clean energy.
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We shouldn't fuel the future with the polluting methods of the past, ... We have the technology to power our future in ways that don't threaten our health or poison our planet. Let's choose to use it.
optimism parental faith-based
I suppose I'd characterize myself as having a faith-based optimism. My faith is parental and Darwinian.
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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.
environment individual planets
I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer.
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Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours.
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It is already too late to avoid mass starvation
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The sunshine that strikes American roads each year contains more energy than all the fossil fuels used by the entire world.
civilization environmental cliffs
When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense.
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Politicians had always viewed environmental issues as narrow things of no great political consequence. Sort of NIMBY issues. A big part of the reason was that the groups that cared about wilderness didn't talk with the groups that were trying to stop freeways from cutting through inner cities, and neither of them talked to the folks who wanted to stop the military from dumping Agent Orange on Vietnam.