Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.

What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?

We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.

Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable.

Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer!

I'm a practitioner of elegant frugality. I don't feel comfortable telling other people what to do, so I just try and lead by example.

I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted.

If you ask me, it'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it.

Economies are supposed to serve human ends.. not the other way round. We forget at our peril that markets make a good servant, a bad master and a worse religion.

The barriers that renewables and efficiency face come less from our living in a capitalist market economy and more from not taking market economics seriously.

By skimping on design, the owner gets costlier equipment, higher energy costs, and a less competitive and comfortable building; the tenants get lower productivity and higher rent and operating costs.

Thank God for forgiveness of my sins.

Everyone has a past to overcome and a future to conquer. Believe yourself and move on.

I want to say to you: Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty.

If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.

Journaling is something that I've always tried to get into.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

Anger can be an effective negotiating tool, but only as a calculated act, never as a reaction.

Time spent with poets is never wasted.

Facts are stupid things — stubborn things, I should say.

Most of the beauties of travel are due to the strange hours we keep to see them