On occasion Five Friday Facts becomes something else. Today we present Five Friday Quotations for your contemplation.
- “Nothing in nature is exhausted in it’s first use. When a thing has served an end to the uttermost, it is wholly new for an ulterior service.” Ralph Waldo Emerson as quoted in Natural Capitalism p.17
- “Technology has to be married to policy and social/behavioral change.” Arun Majumdar: Director, the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) http://arpa-e.energy.gov/
- “We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late.” – MLK, 1967
- As quoted in Donella Meadows’ Thinking in Systems: A Primer: “If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.” – Aldo Leopold
- “Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from the bottom up.”–Woodrow Wilson, 28th U.S. president (from CEA SmartBrief [cea@smartbrief.com])
- 2nd Green Revolution
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