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


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

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.

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.

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!

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!



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

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



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'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.

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.

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.

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.

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.





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When people are finding meaning in things -- beware.



Nearly 60% of Americans who regularly attend Christian church say there is no such thing as the Holy Spirit—they say the Holy Spirit is just a symbol of God’s power or presence or purity.

Nearly 60% of Americans who regularly attend Christian church say there is no such thing as the Holy Spirit—they say the Holy Spirit is just a symbol of God’s power or presence or purity.



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It could be, it might be... It is, A home run!



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