Posts Tagged ‘Green Quote’

• Occupy Earth: Nature is the 99%, too

  “Tearing apart wildlife habitat to make a profit and doing the same at a workplace are just considered the price of doing business. Clearcutting a forest and clearcutting a labor force are two sides of the same coin.”

• Australian Green Senator Milne speech: “climate nightmare is real and happening NOW”

  The Australian Green senator Christine Milne, the first female leader of a political party in Tasmania’s history, delivered this speech to the Australian National Press Club this past week. Key quote from the speech: “The truth is the climate nightmare …

• George Monbiot: “It’s over, now we must adapt to what nature sends our way”

  George Monbiot, Europe’s leading green commentator, says it’s all over. But argues we can’t afford to abandon our efforts to cut emissions. Because if we do “our prophecy is bound to come true”. “Quietly in public, loudly in private, climate …

• Nicholas Stern: Climate change will create billions of refugees, extended world war

  Lord Nicholas Stern, British economist and academic who is most known for the Stern Review said, during an improvised speech at a Cape Town hotel in South Africa, that if we don’t act quickly and determinedly to address climate change …

• Green Quote of the Week: James Hansen on Coal River Mountain

  Photo credit: World Development Movement Top US climate scientist Dr James Hansen shares his thoughts about Coal River Mountain and Barack Obama’s coal policy in general in a letter titled: “Tell President Obama About Coal River Mountain“. “Coal River Mountain …

• Gore: The whole auto industry needs to be transformed

  Photo credit: World Resources Institute Staff Al Gore talked about the failing auto industry in USA, “clean coal” and the environmental work being done in China in a recent interview with Newsweek’s Fareed Zakaria. In the interview Gore said that …

• Chinese Premier: Rich nations should ditch ‘unsustainable’ lifestyles

  Photo credit: World Economic Forum During a meeting, with focus on development and transfer of technology that can help tackle climate change, in Beijing with 76 nations attending the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said that “developed countries have a responsibility …

• Green Quote of the Week: Barack Obama

  Photo credit: patrick dentler Newsweek has a good quote from Barack Obama when he was preparing for one of the debates: The debates unnerved both candidates. When he was preparing for them during the Democratic primaries, Obama was recorded saying, …

• “There is no need to spend a penny of public money on greening the motor industry”

  photo credit: Nrbelex George Monbiot says that the motor industry has long sabotaged eco-innovations and that they are now demanding billions to cut its carbon emissions. The green subsidy for car makers, Monbiot says, is just a disguised corporate bail-out. …

• Green Quote of the Week: UK Met Office

  The Guardian quotes a statement from the UK Met Office, one of the world’s leading providers of environmental and weather-related services: “Anyone who thinks global warming has stopped has their head in the sand. The evidence is clear, the long-term …