Carbon Footprint Quotes

• We should tax every company's carbon footprint and the carbon footprint of every building and home, to incentivize people to reduce their carbon footprint.

  Philip Kotler

  Home, People, Building

  Fuente: bobmorris.biz

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• Un vegano en un Hummer tiene una huella de carbono menor que un carnívoro en un Prius.

  Michael Pollan

  Beef, Vegan, Prius

  "Michael Pollan’s ‘Hummer-Driving Vegan’ Claim Debunked" by Kyle Cassidy, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I'm passionate about caring for this planet. I'd like to bring awareness to ways that individuals can reduce their carbon footprints without waiting for governments to change things on a policy level.

  Laura Regan

  Caring, Government, Waiting

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Its obvious nonsense, but it makes nice people feel good about themselves to do their bit for the planet. Its vanity of a grotesque kind to believe that mankind, and our carbon footprint, has more impact on the future of Earth than Nature, which bends our planet to its will, as it sees fit.

  Charles Saatchi

  Nice, Believe, Vanity

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• There is much work to do to protect forests from over-timbering and oceans and lakes from over-fishing. We need to encourage and reward companies that create jobs to reduce the carbon footprints of offices and buildings and homes.

  Philip Kotler

  Jobs, Ocean, Home

  Fuente: bobmorris.biz

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• China is building cities for a 20 to 40 percent increase in population. India is quickly growing. The carbon footprints of that and other development around the world are overwhelming.

  Frank Gehry

  Cities, India, Population

  Entrevista con David Sheff, www.playboy.com. 1 de marzo de 2011.

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• Measured against the Problem We Face, planting a garden sounds pretty benign, I know, but in fact it’s one of the most powerful things an individual can do - to reduce your carbon footprint, sure, but more important, to reduce your sense of dependence and dividedness: to change the cheap-energy mind.

  Michael Pollan

  Powerful, Garden, Mind

  "Why Bother?". www.nytimes.com. April 22, 2008.

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• Every company that manufactures something is causing some damage either to the soil or water or air. Most companies treat these as externalities. But the growing movement of sustainability calls for companies to internalize these costs. Once companies do this, they will have a strong incentive to reduce their carbon footprint.

  Philip Kotler

  Strong, Air, Water

  Fuente: bobmorris.biz

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• While we reduce our own carbon footprint we will encourage the companies who truck our DVDs and newspapers, sell us paper, and provide an enormous range of products and services to all contribute.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Encouragement, Dvds, Paper

  Rupert Murdoch's Speech On Carbon Neutrality, www.theaustralian.com.au. May 10, 2007.

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• My goal is to leave this planet with the biggest carbon footprint I can possibly leave.

  Denis Leary

  Goal, Planets, I Can

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• Guío mis acciones y mi vida por lo que quiero. No hay dos personas iguales. Puedes admirar los atributos de los demás, pero úsalos sólo como guía para mejorar a tu manera. No me gustan los calcos. El individualismo es sagrado.

  Richard Chamberlain

  Único, Dos, Personas

  Biografía/Citas personales, www.imdb.com.

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• Creo que los países del Caribe se enfrentan a la subida de los océanos y al aumento de la gravedad de los huracanes. Esto es algo que nos da mucho miedo a todos. Los estados insulares del mundo representan -recuerdo esta cifra- la mitad del 1% de las emisiones de carbono del mundo. Y algunos de ellos desaparecerán.

  Steven Chu

  Campo, Océano, Pensamiento

  "Día de la Tierra 2009: Obama Energy Chief Lays Out Climate Doomsday Scenario". www.huffingtonpost.com. 20 de mayo de 2009.

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• I'm interested in humor, and greeting cards just happen to be a perfect medium for my message. They're accessible to everyone, and thanks to all the advances that have been made by environmentally conscientious printers, I can get my message across while keeping my carbon footprint relatively small.

  Anne Taintor

  Perfect, Cards, Messages

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• I'm trying to be as green as I can. As an airline pilot, I have a carbon footprint that's a size 10, so it's pretty hard.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Trying, Green, Pilots

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• El Lunes sin carne es una estrategia sencillísima. Cualquiera puede hacerlo y no requiere grandes sacrificios. Aunque los otros seis días de la semana sigas una dieta típicamente estadounidense repleta de comida rápida, procesada y basura, los lunes sin carne reducirás tu huella de carbono, mejorarás tu salud y reducirás la demanda de carne de granjas industriales.

  Mark Bittman

  Monday, Sacrifice, Cutting

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• When I'm talking about a developing world, I also look at clean-water access - women who are more vulnerable to sexual violence when they're fetching water. And talking about what we have going on here, with our carbon footprints and our emissions, is just as important to me as figuring out how to provide clean water to people who need it in regions around the world.

  Sophia Bush

  Talking, Water, People

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• I wish being a beekeeper, which I am, gave you a free pass on the carbon footprint, but it doesn't.

  Neil Gaiman

  Wish, Footprint, Carbon

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• War and, apparently, hurricanes are very good for the oil business. But I've got to believe at a certain point, as a nation, we're going to go in a different direction toward an increased sense of personal responsibility, a lowering of each individual's carbon footprint and a real collaborative effort to help sustain our planet.

  Stephen Gaghan

  Real, Guerra, Creer

  "Movies: 'Syriana'". Online discuss, www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2005.

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• The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax us citizens for our carbon footprints.

  John Coleman

  Player, America, Keys

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• ¿Es la tribu de los Brangelina más falsa que la de la momia sin salida al mar que cree que puede dejar media docena de mocosos y mantener una modesta huella de carbono? Yo creo que no.

  Julie Burchill

  Believe, Thinking, Yummy

  "¿Sufrir a los niños pequeños? Give me a break", por Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. 2 de agosto de 2008.

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• The only place Al Gore conserves energy these days is on the treadmill. I don't want to suggest that Al's getting big, but the last time I saw him on TV I thought, "That reminds me - we have to do something about saving the polar bears." Never mind his carbon footprint - have you seen the size of Al Gore's regular footprint lately? It's almost as deep as Janet Reno's.

  Ann Coulter

  Mind, Want, Als

  "The coming ass age". townhall.com. March 21, 2007.

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• La mayoría de los ciudadanos estadounidenses se muestran escépticos ante la afirmación de que nuestra huella de carbono, derivada del uso de combustibles fósiles, va a provocar calamidades climáticas. Pero los gobiernos aún no escuchan a los ciudadanos.

  John Coleman

  Government, Listening, Fossils

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• The first thing we can do as individuals and as communities, like a school or a university or a church, is cut our energy use. Do an energy audit or measure our carbon footprint using online carbon calculators that are free, easy, and cheap. Get a list of the ways that we can stop wasting so much energy and save money.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  School, Cutting, Community

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• If you want to make a substantial reduction in your carbon footprint, doing it on your own is virtually impossible, especially if you're driving a car. Here are tools available in the marketplace, enabling our customers to have this conversation.

  Tom Arnold

  Tools, Enabling, Want

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• Probably the single-most concrete and substantive thing an American, young American, could do to lower our carbon footprint is not turning off the lights or driving a Prius, it's having fewer kids...we'll soon see a market in baby-avoidance carbon credits similar to efforts to sell CO2 credits for avoiding deforestation.

  Andrew Revkin

  Baby, Kids, Light

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