By skimping on design, the owner gets costlier equipment, higher energy costs, and a less competitive and comfortable building; the tenants get lower productivity and higher rent and operating costs.

We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska.

The barriers that renewables and efficiency face come less from our living in a capitalist market economy and more from not taking market economics seriously.

In the model that we grew up with, governments rule physical territory in which national economies function, and strong economies support hegemonic military power. In the new model, already emerging under our noses, economic decisions don't pay much attention to national sovereignty in a world where more than half of the one hundred or two hundred largest economic entities are not countries but companies.

Nuclear power has died of an incurable attack of market forces and is way beyond any hope of revival, because the competitors are several-fold cheaper and are getting rapidly more so.

The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion.

Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal.