50 Renewable Energy Quotes Inspiring A Greener Future

Energy is essential for development, and sustainable energy is essential for sustainable development.
- Tim Wirth

The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

Wind and other clean, renewable energy will help end our reliance on fossil fuels and combat the severe threat that climate change poses to humans and wildlife alike.
- Frances Beinecke

Climate change is not just another issue. It is the issue that, unchecked, will swamp all other issues. The only hope lies in all the countries of the world coming together around a common global project to rewire the world with clean energy. This is a path to peace – peace among people, and peace between people and nature.
- Ross Gelbspan

Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and to the use of coal and permanent renewable energy sources, like solar power.
- Jimmy Carter

There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources.
- Bill McKibben

We should not be drilling for oil anywhere because burning oil and coal and natural gas is what's destroying our environment, our climate. And we need the climate if we're going to eat.
- Paul Ehrlich

We know we'll run out of dead dinosaurs to mine for fuel and have to use sustainable energy eventually, so why not go renewable now and avoid increasing risk of climate catastrophe? Betting that science is wrong and oil companies are right is the dumbest experiment in history by far.
- Elon Musk

We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us.
- Jimmy Carter

Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures.
- David Suzuki

I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.
- Al Gore

The two most abundant forms of power on earth are solar and wind, and they're getting cheaper and cheaper.
- Ed Begley, Jr.

Renewable energy is a clear winner when it comes to boosting the economy and creating jobs.
- Tom Steyer

One of the most exciting opportunities created by renewable energy technologies like solar is the ability to help the world's poorest develop faster – but more sustainably too.
- Ed Davey

Renewable energy could reduce emissions but also create jobs and improve public health.
- Paul Polman

Applying renewable energy sources in full at scale will make possible a multitude of new business opportunities.
- Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr,

Once you got a solar panel on a roof, energy is free. Once we convert our entire electricity grid to green and renewable energy, cost of living goes down.
- Elizabeth May

All energy is ultimately derived from the sun, and harvesting it directly through solar power seems to be the best way to transition to renewable energy.
- Peter Rive

I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.
- George Porter

Solar energy is bound to be in our future. There's a kind of inevitability about it.
- Jim Inhofe

The whole idea of the solar project is to do something useful and replace dirty energy with clean energy.
- Nick Kelly

While climate change threatens our environment on the one hand, and fossil fuel depletion threatens our economic system on the other, solar energy holds out the promise of protecting both of them.
- Mahmood H. Shubbak

I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait till oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
- Thomas Edison

Solar power is going to be absolutely essential to meeting growing energy demands while staving off climate change.
- Ramez Naam

Every 24 hours, enough sunlight touches the Earth to provide the energy for the entire planet for 24 years.
- Martha Maeda

The great hope for a quick and sweeping transition to renewable energy is wishful thinking.
- Vaclav Smil

I think a revolution transitioning from fossil fuels to clean, renewable energy – somebody's going to be the 21st-century clean-energy superpower.
- Hillary Clinton

Renewable energy is not more expensive than fossil fuel when you factor in lifecycle costs.
- Piyush Goyal

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
- Ralph Nader

Clearly, we need more incentives to quickly increase the use of wind and solar power; they will cut costs, increase our energy independence and our national security and reduce the consequences of global warming.
- Hillary Clinton

To truly transform our economy, protect our security, and save our planet from the ravages of climate change, we need to ultimately make clean, renewable energy the profitable kind of energy.
- Barack Obama

I've been very passionate about renewable energy for many years, particularly solar energy and its capacity to bring abundant clean, sustainable energy to millions around the globe.
- Richard Branson

The potential of renewable energy is immense.
- Tulsi Tanti

It is time for a sustainable energy policy which puts consumers, the environment, human health, and peace first.
- Dennis Kucinich

Everything we make pollutes. The most responsible thing we can do is to make each product as well as we know how so it lasts as long as possible.
- Yvon Chouinard

By embracing clean energy across the country, we can create more and better jobs, protect the air our children breathe and the water they drink, and keep electricity more stable over time.
- Michelle Lujan Grisham

Our wisest long-term investment is not in the dirty polluting fossil fuels from the past, but in the clean energy of the future.
- London Breed

A strong renewable energy industry is good for our environment and our economy.
- Roy Cooper

Our oil-based society depends on non-renewable resources. It requires relentless probing into vast reaches of pristine land, sacrificing vital bioregions, and irreplaceable cultures...We must all move shoulder to shoulder in a unified front to show this administration that the true majority of people are willing to vote for a cleaner environment and won't back down.
- Leo Dicaprio

Renewable energy, including from offshore wind, is crucial to the effort to avoid some of the worst effects of climate change, according to environmentalists and some elected officials.
- Tatiana Schlossberg

Ultimately, I believe – because energy is so central to our lives – that a common global project to rewire the world with clean energy could be the first step on a path to global peace and global democracy – even in today's deeply troubled world.
- Ross Gelbspan

With each green step you take, you help solve our planet's problems. When you buy fair trade coffee, bananas, chocolate, and gifts, you ensure a fair wage for farmers and producers around the world. By choosing organic foods and organic cotton clothing, you put an end to the dangerous pesticides used on conventional crops. By making your home more energy-efficient, you stop global warming and crate a more secure energy future. You restore the Earth. You save lives.
- Alicia Gravitz

There can be no sustainable development without sustainable energy development.
- Margot Wallstrom

100% renewable energy is 100% possible and can happen sooner than we think.
- John B. Quigley

A transition to clean energy is about making an investment in our future.
- Gloria Reuben

It's very important that we expand our use of clean energy and make a longterm commitment to it.
- Julia Roberts

Solar power is not about fashion, it's about survival.
- Sir Norman Foster

Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet nobody taxes the sun yet.
- Bonnie Raitt

Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.
- Tom Allen

We can create a more sustainable, cleaner and safer world by making wiser energy choices.
- Robert Alan Silverstein