Quotes About Alternative Energy

#1. [Alternative energy] will make us less dependent on foreign oil. It would make us more secure in our future. It would mean that our foreign policy could be a reflection of our values and our other interests, and not just that.

William J. Clinton

#2. If you're looking at distributing alternative energy in Nigeria, for instance, what gets in your way is not people's ability to pay, not people's desire for a clean solar lamps or biomass opportunities. But there is a strong status quo that really depends on selling diesel.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#3. You got to be just stupid to not be focused on alternative energy.

Lewis Black

#4. That's one of the most exciting things about Michigan's future. We need to, we must capitalize on our alternative-energy vehicles that we can produce right here.

Jennifer Granholm

#5. By reducing our dependence of foreign oil and increasing alternative energy sources such as ethanol, we can begin to bring down prices at the pumps, create thousands of new jobs and bring a much needed boost to our economy.

Jim Ryun

#6. The low price of oil is a headwind to investments in alternative energy technologies, but it will not stop them.

Carlos Ghosn

#7. We are launching a campaign called Wind, Not War, which is about the alternatives to a fossil-fuels-based economy and looking at wind, an alternative energy, as key to that in terms of issues of global climate change as well as issues of democracy.

Winona LaDuke

#8. The potential for alternative energy sources, mainly solar and wind power, to completely replace coal and gas for utility generation globally is, I think, certain. The question is only whether it takes 30 years or 70 years.

Jeremy Grantham

#9. There are those of us that believe if you truly want to try drive down the cost of gas, if you really want to solve the problem, then you should be pursuing the extraction of our resources that are right here at home: alternative energy and traditional.

Jason Chaffetz

#10. I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.

Ian Somerhalder

#11. When you look at the number of nuclear power plants in China and India, we can't afford not to pursue similar alternative energy sources. If we do not, it would do immense harm to the manufacturing industry in the Midwest.

Bob Latta

#12. I actually think the civil service, who are the malignancy at the heart of public life, have consciously prevented, talked ministers out of, made it difficult regulatory-wise, to allow more pressure on alternative energy sources to grow.

Ken Livingstone

#13. What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity.

Lois Capps

#14. The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be.

Lindsey Graham

#15. I believe that the U.S. can and should be a global leader in the development of alternative energy sources ...

Barack Obama

#16. Instead of finding alternative energy sources, we try to subjugate entire regions of the world. People do not understand that by doing this, the United States are going to absolute ruin.

Gore Vidal

#17. Co-creating our lives from a heart-centered and spirit-connected space is simply more efficient, effective and healthy.

Heidi DuPree

#18. If we don't continue to pursue alternative, emissions-free energy sources like nuclear fuel, we are at risk of increasing our dependence on costly natural gas.

Judy Biggert

#19. Even as we work to develop more sources of petroleum for the United States, we must continue our vigorous pursuit of alternative fuels, so that we can be powered by cleaner, more efficient sources of energy.

Virgil Goode

#20. The Chinese have done some extraordinary things in terms of the investments they've made in alternative sources of energy.

Henry Paulson

#21. The higher self knows there is no right or wrong, no good or bad, and accepts that both light and dark must exist to maintain the balance of the whole.

Heidi DuPree

#22. If you're going to spend most of your time in your democracy figuring out how to get oil by intervening into other people's countries and insuring that you follow it with military might, we think there's an alternative. Which would be renewable energy.

Winona LaDuke

#23. We must shift the energy policy debate in America with an increased focus on alternative and renewable fuels and Congress must pass meaningful alternative fuels and incentive programs to help move the U.S. away from dependence on foreign oil.

Rick Renzi

#24. But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nation's economic viability.

Jim Clyburn

#25. If oil companies were to invest their high profits into alternative fuel research it will help America move toward new forms of energy.

Rick Renzi

#26. To truly regenerate, to find what we are seeking, we must change from within.

Heidi DuPree

#27. You think when you don't want to do anything. Thinking is a poor alternative to acting. Your thinking is consuming all your energy. Act, don't think!

U.G. Krishnamurti

#28. With leading research universities, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and private companies like Blue Sun working on developing alternative fuels, Colorado is poised to become an international leader in clean energy.

Ken Salazar

#29. When we take on responsibility for others, or make them wrong so we can feel right, we get in the way of spirit.

Heidi DuPree

#30. From the unlimited wellspring of energy that flows from our center, life situations cease to be "too much" or "not enough.

Heidi DuPree

#31. We cannot continue to close our eyes to the fact that we have to truly embrace green jobs, new technologies and alternative sources of energy.

Luis Fortuno

#32. Energy is the key to prosperity, to security. And until we [in US] start tapping our domestic, conventional and alternative sources to energy, we're never going to get there.

Sarah Palin

#33. We should see the leadership from the White House setting dates certain for certain goals of achieving greater alliance on alternative and renewable energy sources, but we are not.

Ron Kind

#34. Transformation is always an inside-out process.

Heidi DuPree

#35. When we experience the loss of our outer life, the way to our inner light is cleared.

Heidi DuPree

#36. Attraction isn't about physical appearance. It's about energy.

Heidi DuPree

#37. Art can play a major role. I look at art as an alternative source of energy, the same way we might look at wind or solar or lithium batteries.

Saul Williams

#38. As both developed and developing nations search for alternative sources of energy in response to the growing energy crisis, we at Acumen Fund believe that investing in entrepreneurs who provide innovative energy solutions is an increasingly critical part of the solution.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#39. As Michigan's voice on the Senate Finance Committee and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, I will continue working to make sure the next generation of advanced technologies and alternative fuel vehicles are made right here in America.

Debbie Stabenow

#40. Giving and helping from the heart becomes like a magnet, amplifying the energy to all those involved in the exchange.

Heidi DuPree

#41. Japan is a model already to the lie that economic growth is the key to our future. If they can really show an alternative to nukes and fossil fuels, then they will be the poster boy for the renewable energy for the future.

David Suzuki

#42. I have been working for years to promote a responsible energy policy that works to increase energy efficiency and invest in alternative and renewable energy sources.

Lois Capps

#43. Plastics, as a material, are very nasty, but as an alternative to, let's say, a brick, which seems really natural, they start to look pretty good. They're very low energy to produce, very lightweight to transport and construct. That's why they're so popular.

Greg Lynn

#44. Your inner landscape determines your outer life.

Heidi DuPree

#45. It is more important to move on to positive actions without stopping to wallow in anger about injustices -- including the unjust suppression of inventors. Exposing the skeletons in the closet serves to enlighten, but getting off-message with retribution will be counter-productive.

Jeane Manning

#46. Giving authority to others to control your lower-self impulses only serves to keep you in the lower self!

Heidi DuPree

#47. Metaphors are a window into the soul and carry us across the boundary between the lower and higher selves, connecting us to the universal energy field and the collective consciousness.

Heidi DuPree