Antoine Predock Quotes

There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable.

We have to change from 'ego-architecture' to 'eco-architecture.'

Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.

I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future.

As a group, we want to follow good and green strategy. Setting targets is one element of that. The second part is to design products which meet environmental goals.

We have to base architecture on the environment.

I was always a girl who loved animals and cared about the environment - um, I totally recycled at home and turned the lights off every time I left! But it wasn't until I met the love of my life, Philippe Cousteau, that I realized every thing we do, buy and use makes a difference in the world... for better or worse.

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.

Saving petrol is saving India's money. This is a sense of patriotism. The country can be energy-independent by energy conservation. I appeal to the other ministers also to do this.

Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?

Musicians are so well covered in the press, it would be great to see more outspoken practitioners of green life.

If we can clean up our world, I'll bet you we can achieve warp drive.

Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.

Authors can only soft sell the environment. Create a wonderful story around the environment involving the characters that leaves a lasting impression on the reader's mind.

I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.

I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.

Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream America, two or three kids, mom and dad working outside the home, that's not a very good deal.

I want to show people that environmentalism can be fun!

I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach.

To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.

I have great respect for people who live out their beliefs. For example, Ed Begley Jr. is an environmentalist, but he really lives his lives, and is he very prudent in the way he lives. He's cautious. He's not like an Al Gore that flies around in a private jet and burns 20,000 gallons a day on his jet.

The environmental benefits of hydrogen are also outstanding. When used as an energy source, hydrogen produces no emissions besides water. Zero polluting emissions, an amazing advance over the current sources of energy that we use.

I believe we should be good custodians of the Earth.

What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them.