Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions..

Prominent exploration experts have recently predicted that total world production of liquid oil will peak by about the end of this decade-or a few ye….

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 wor….

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 inefficien….

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

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..

I am a man without a furnace. My windows are insulated by 19 sheets of glass which cost less than installing a heating system..

Any demanding high technology tends to develop influential and dedicated constituencies of those who link its commercial success with both the public….

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

I think along the way, as we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be evaded or manipulated, we will certainly acquire much more….

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

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

If you ask the wrong question, of course, you get the wrong answer. We find in design it's much more important and difficult to ask the right questi….

The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion..

We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska..

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

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

Rely on renewable energy flows that are always there whether we use them or not, such as, sun, wind and vegetation: on energy income, not depletable ….

Many business leaders are asking fundamental questions about what business they're in, why they are doing it and how it can be used as a means of hea….

The reason the U.S. lags so badly is that we have obsolete rules that favor big over small, supply over efficiency, and incumbents over new market en….

Our energy future is choice, not fate. Oil dependence is a problem we need no longer have-and it's cheaper not to. U.S. oil dependence can be elimin….