P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

I'm a strong proponent of green tech for anyone who can afford it, having spent the last 40 years working toward achieving a smaller and smaller eco-impact for myself.

You'll know the green revolution has been won when the word 'green' disappears.

There is a new wave of environmental consumers I like to call Pocketbook Environmentalists. They're going green primarily because it makes good financial sense, but the fact that it benefits their families' health and the environment also makes them feel good.

I'm not going to be some kind of PC, tree-hugger.

I'm an environmentalist; I recycle.

In Los Angeles, I drive a hybrid and live in a very simple home. Anything you do from carrying a canteen of water to starting a recycling program in your office makes a difference. Reusing what you already have has always been green - from clothes to boxes to glass jars from the supermarket.

If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly.

When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.

'Green' does not have to mean the sort of hair-shirt, wood-burning-stove sensibility of the '70s. Green can and should be sleek and modern.

I'm pretty much your average, energy-saving-light-bulbs-recycling citizen.

I am involved in Greenpeace. And I just recently completely switched my diet over to near-veganism. So you try to do little things that you can. I recycle every single day. Every single thing in my house that can be recycled is.

I want to show people that environmentalism can be fun!

I drive a hybrid, moving into an electric car. I only drink tap water, never consume food that's travelled.

If there is a future, it will be Green.

We try to make earth-friendly decisions whenever we can, as it's part of our brand DNA.

With increasing fervor since the 1980s, sustainability has been the watchword of scientists, environmental activists, and indeed all those concerned about the complex, fragile systems on the sphere we inhabit. It has shaped debates about business, design, and our lifestyles.

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.

We should bring in an environmental attitude, and I think luxury should automatically be about sustainability and quality.

With all this talk of Going Green, Buying Green, Living Green, and Green being the new whatever, I've come to realize that, although we had no green, my grandmother was actually the 'greenest' person I've ever known.

One of my rules is: If it's good for the planet, it's usually good for your wallet.

There are a lot of irritating aspects about large supermarkets for the wannabe eco-warrior, but the one that gets most of us hottest under the collar is packaging.

We were in recycling before recycling was cool.

I think any opportunity you have to be green, whether it's in business or in everyday life, you should take it.

People go to environmental meetings in Hollywood in their gas-guzzling Mercedes.

I'm adamant about recycling in my house, and I'm always making sure to turn off the lights.