Bhavish Aggarwal Quotes

Because I'm one of five people in Los Angeles who doesn't drive, I walk a lot.

For me, not owning a car means I may spend a little extra time on public transportation, but I can use that time to read, catch up on work projects, and make the phone calls I couldn't get to earlier. Plus, I never waste time at the mechanics or gas station.

Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy equation.

I have refused to buy a car for the reasons of sustainability.

Our goal was to completely change transportation. Change traffic. And make it possible to get anywhere you want to go without owning a car.

This walking business is overrated: I mastered the art of doing it when I was quite small, and in any case, what are taxis for?

I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.

I don't think people are going to switch over to bikes because it's good for them or because it's politically correct. They're going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.

I rarely fly, for environmental reasons more than anything else.

I've got two bikes that get me everywhere I need to go. And public transportation.

I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.

I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving.

I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.

There are three major issues now that are becoming important, not only for cities, but for all mankind: Mobility, sustainability - which is linked to mobility - and social diversity.

It makes no sense to make people drive cars.

I grew up on the bus, or riding my bike, or catching the subway, I've never had a car. In college, any girl I ever dated had a car, too.

The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine, it enshrines a basically old-fashioned idea: freedom. In terms of pollution, noise and human life, the price of that freedom may be high, but perhaps the car, by the very muddle and confusion it causes, may be holding back the remorseless spread of the regimented, electronic society.

If I drive my SUV I'm supporting terrorism. Okay, I'll take a taxi, Is that better?

Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate change.

'Being green' is commendable, but I hope that people don't take too much pride and self-adoration because they shut off the water when they brushed their teeth. The truth of the matter is, conservation alone will do little to save our planet.

It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass, and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall. It's stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here.

If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack.

We live in a disposable society. We throw so much away. But it doesn't come from nowhere. It comes from the planet and it comes from future generations' lives.

Cities offer us powerful leverage on our most stubborn, wasteful practices. Long commutes in our cars, big power bills from our energy-hogging buildings, shopping trips to buy stuff that'll spend a few short months in our homes and long centuries in our landfills.

When you take on something like your footprint on the environment, you have to say, 'Where am I going to draw the circle around my level of responsibility and then where do I assume that others will take responsibility?'