Denis Hayes famous quotes

04-17-2025

Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours.
-- Denis Hayes

#Running #Fun #Beer
I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer.
-- Denis Hayes

#Environment #Individual #Planets
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.
-- Denis Hayes

#Years #Humanity #Energy
Zeroes are important. A million seconds ago was last week. A billion seconds ago, Richard Nixon resigned the presidency. A trillion seconds ago was 30,000 BC, and early humans were using stone tools.
-- Denis Hayes

#Important #Tools #Stones
Make Earth Day Every Day.â€Â 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 Seattleâ€™s Bullitt Foundation, in mind when I need a little extra motivation to be a better environmentalist: â€œListen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours.
-- Denis Hayes

#Running #Motivation #Beer
When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense.
-- Denis Hayes

#Civilization #Environmental #Cliffs
There really wasn't an environmental movement 30 years ago. The Sierra Club national office in 1969 consisted of one full-time volunteer.
-- Denis Hayes

#Years #Volunteer #Office
We got everyone's attention, but we didn't solve any environmental problems.
-- Denis Hayes

#Environmental #Attention #Problem
When we held the first Earth Day, everyone said it was a success because of the huge turnout. It was probably the largest planned event across the country.
-- Denis Hayes

#Country #Earth Day #Events
The easiest way to make something cool is to get cool people to do it. Part of this might mean the president has to forget tensions with opponents, or people like Arnold Schwarzenegger who has actually been decent with oil issues. Maybe he needs to pull some of the cool people in and make them model the right behaviors.
-- Denis Hayes

#Mean #Oil #Issues
There was almost a universal acceptance of unhealthy conditions. Sulfur dioxide in smokestack emissions were the price, or smell, of prosperity,
-- Denis Hayes

#Acceptance #Smell #Sulfur
We've made some heroic efforts, but the Earth as a whole is in worse shape today than 30 years ago, ... There's been 30 more years of greenhouses gases, species extinctions and population growth.
-- Denis Hayes

#Years #Effort #Growth
These are not exhortations from overwrought extremists, but carefully phrased warnings from some of the world's finest scientists,
-- Denis Hayes

#Warning #World #Finest
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.
-- Denis Hayes

#Past #Technology #Poison
We presently have the technology ... fuel cells, solar cells, hydrogen ... the opportunities are amazing for clean energy.
-- Denis Hayes

#Technology #Opportunity #Cells
It is already too late to avoid mass starvation
-- Denis Hayes

#Earth Day #Too Late #Mass
An acre of windy prairie could produce between $4,000 and 10,000 worth of electricity per year - which is far more than the value of the land's crop of corn or wheat.
-- Denis Hayes

#Years #Land #Energy
The sunshine that strikes American roads each year contains more energy than all the fossil fuels used by the entire world.
-- Denis Hayes

#Sunshine #Years #Energy
America has the technology and resources to meet all its energy needs while safeguarding the earth's climate. The urgent question now is, 'Do we have the will?' At least one city does, and I'm proud to live in it.
-- Denis Hayes

#Technology #Cities #America
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.
-- Denis Hayes

#Running #Reality #Long

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