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"We're at a moment where it's neither smart nor fun to trust other people with saving the world.  When you make a conscious choice - as millions of people are starting to - to become the kind of person who is going to redefine the world around them to make it more sustainable, more just, and more beautiful, it actually changes the way you see the world.  It lifts that burden of despair.  It makes you somebody who's part of building the future, rather than somebody whom the future is bearing down upon.  If I can recommend to people to do one thing, it would be to simply become one of those people."

-Alex Steffan  Co-Founder & Executive Editor  - Worldchanging

"I've been struck by the heightened sense of delight and beauty in lives and communities pursuing a new alignment with the natural world.  Innovation and sustainability often begins, I've found, with people defining what they cherish as much as diagnosing what is wrong....The writer Fredrick Breuchner has said that 'vocation happens when our deep gladness meets the world's deep need.'  I'd like to propose the work of sustainability ahead of us as an unfolding vocation, not merely a response to problems, but an invitation to possibility and a way to strengthen moral resources such as delight, dignity, elegance, and hope."

 - Krista Tippit   Radio Host - Speaking of Faith

"If enough of us buy green power, solar panels, solar hot water systems, and hybrid vehicles, the cost of these items will plummet.  This will encourage the sale of yet more panels and wind generators, and soon the bulk of domestic power will be generated by renewable technologies.  This will place sufficient pressure on  industry that, when combined with the pressure from Kyoto, it will compel energy-hungry enterprises to maximize efficiency and to turn to clean power generation.  This will make the renewables even more affordable.  As a result, the developing world, including China and India, will be able to afford clean power rather than filthy coal.  With a little help from (us) right now, the developing giants of Asia might even avoid the full carbon catastrophe in which we, in the industrialized word, find ourselves so deeply mired.

Much could go wrong with this linked lifeline to climate safety.  It may be that the big power users will infiltrate governments further and stymie the renewables sectors; or maybe we act too slowly, and nations such as China and India will have already invested in fossil fuel generation before the price of renewables comes down.  Or perhaps the rate of climate change will be discovered too great and we will have to draw CO2 from the atmosphere.

 As these challenges suggest, we are the generation fated to live in the most interesting of times, for we are now the weather makers, and the future of biodiversity and civilization hangs on our actions."

 -Tim Flannery , Chairman of South Australian Premier's Science Council and Sustainability Roundtable