Carbon Neutral Quotes

#1. We should be working towards a carbon-neutral Britain by 2050. We should be working towards the elimination of petrol-driven motor cars, we should be really radical in what we do - the urgency of the problem is really enormous

Menzies Campbell

#2. Overall, becoming a carbon-neutral country would involve changes in our behaviour, but these are modest compared with the changes that will be forced upon us if we do nothing.

Caroline Lucas

#3. We could make a difference just by holding our emissions steady as our businesses continue to grow. But that doesn't seem to be enough: we want to go all the way to zero. Today, I am announcing our intention to be carbon neutral, across all our businesses, by 2010.

Rupert Murdoch

#4. Part of what I wanted to do in my book was point out that we have almost reached the point where we can prevent a mass extinction with the science and technology we have today. We can build carbon neutral cities.

Annalee Newitz

#5. C'mon kids! Wake up and smell the CO2! Take over your administration building, occupy your university president's office, or storm in on the next meeting of your college's board of trustees until they agree to make your school carbon neutral.

Thomas Friedman

#6. I think it's harder for people than it should be. But as more and more of us become carbon neutral and change the patterns in our lives to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem, we are now beginning to see the changes in policy that are needed.

Al Gore

#7. We can make choices, but we can be vulnerable; we can do the wrong thing, but the wrong thing for all the right reasons. I think it [life] is basically about forgiveness, and not about someone else forgiving you, but you forgiving yourself. I think we all want a lot of that.

Kelli O'Hara

#8. Spencer: "Based on the number of drinks?"
Nick: "Based on the number of licks.

Aleksandr Voinov

#9. Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with.

Euripides

#10. Unshed tears of an unrequited desire for vengeance are exhausting and require privacy.

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

#11. The angel lay in the little thicket. It had no need of love. There was nothing anywhere in the world could startle it. We can lie here with the angel if we like. It couldn't have hurt much when they slit its throat.

Kenneth Patchen

#12. Bad habits are demons that often push us into isolation because they know that in our loneliness they stand little chance of being overcome.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#13. My earliest drawing is a supposed Carracci. It wasn't very expensive, I guess, because they don't know if it's a real Carracci. But it has all these seals on it of people who've owned it, and one of the great portrait painters of England, Reynolds, had owned it, so that's the earliest.

Ellsworth Kelly

#14. Any way you cut it, I was stuck between a rock and a hard place. Or, more accurately, between a fang and a sharp place.

Jeaniene Frost

#15. Jonah and Catcher shared one of those manly, "It's nice to meet you, but I'm going to barely acknowledge your existence with a small nod because that's the manly thing to do" gestures.

Chloe Neill

#16. If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War In time of war the first casualty is truth.

Boake Carter

#17. He had the odd idea that, though only a whisper, it could have passed through stone or iron or brass. It could have spoken to you from a thousand feet beneath the earth and you would have still heard it. It could have shattered precious stones and brought on madness.

Susanna Clarke

#18. On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism.

Robert Delaunay

#19. Human rights in cyberspace are really no different from rights in the physical world.

Rebecca MacKinnon