Barbara Lee Quotes

Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.

Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

The current challenge facing the environmental authorities is how to properly deal with the environmental problems caused by economic development.

We can turn your bottles back into oil. We can burn it to make energy. Our we can put it in a landfill. There’s a green spectrum. And a cost spectrum. The most green is the most expensive.

We, as a country, have always used innovative technology to advance environmental stewardship, reduction of those pollutants, but also grown our economy at the same time.

A big part of green tech will be organisms that eat waste.

There is no such thing as waste. It is just a question of whether we know how to use something or not.

We need to throw away less, recycle a lot more and turn much of the rest into energy.

We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.

All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.

I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.

You know, Californians care about protecting their environment. So do I. But they also care about that in the context of a healthy economy.

For centuries, America has led the world on a long march toward freedom and democracy. Let's reclaim our clean energy leadership and lead the world toward clean energy independence.

The notion of 'reduce and refine' is one I've pursued. I truly believe that by making things less complex, by finding innovative ways to make sustainability affordable, we can advance the notion that it is possible.

And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over.

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

We have been getting ready to recycle more e-waste by investing in infrastructure, providing grants to local government and working with industry.

There are real and growing dangers to our simple and most precious possessions: the air we breathe, the water we bring, and the land which sustains us.... If we do not act, the world of the year 2000 will be much less able to sustain life than it is now.

Every time we try to do something to improve the environment someone predicts that it will ruin the economy.

If I were emperor of the world, I would put the pedal to the floor on energy efficiency and conservation for the next decade.

Just as we demand that our governments address risks associated with terrorism or epidemics, we should put concerted pressure on them to act now to preserve our natural environment and curb climate change.

Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.

Working together, we can meet our shared goal to combat climate change. From harmonizing vehicle emissions standards to using our trading relationship to boost investment in clean energy, the actions the United States and Canada take together will help both nations meet international goals.

There is a great deal of innovation occurring in Colorado, with some of the most brilliant minds and creative startup companies in the world formulating climate-change solutions right in our backyard.

Our myopic focus on producing and consuming as cheaply as possible has created a linear economy in which objects are briefly used and then discarded as waste.