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

Nuclear power has died of an incurable attack of market forces and is way beyond any hope of revival, because the competitors are several-fold cheape….

Today we have a temporary aberration called "industrial capitalism" which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital, the….

Variable but forecastable renewables (wind and solar cells) are very reliable when integrated with each other, existing supplies and demand. For exam….

Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal..

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..

In the model that we grew up with, governments rule physical territory in which national economies function, and strong economies support hegemonic m….

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….

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 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….

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 ….

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

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

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….

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….

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

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.….

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….

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….

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

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….