1. Building Sustainable Cities: 5 Big Ideas
New York Times Energy for Tomorrow Conference | April 25, 201
Photos: Piotr Redlinski

2. “Stop and think about it: All the progress that is being made in this
country, and really around the world, is not made by the federal
government or by state governments. It has been made by cities,
who are actually leading the ways on climate change.”
Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York City

3. “If we could just improve the energy efficiency of our homes by
10%, that's like taking 18 million cars off of our streets and roads.”
Shaun Donovan,
U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

4. “If you put a frog in cold water and slowly bring up the
temperature, it will eventually boil to death. This is the problem
with trash. We are slowly boiling to death and not realizing it.”
Jeremy Irons, executive producer of the documentary “Trashed”

5. “The reason local food tends to be more expensive .... is because
the distribution and infrastructure angle, for which cities could
invest in.”
Dan Barber, chef and co-owner, Blue Hill at Stone Barns

6. “Nature is pretty good at protecting itself. If we let the flood plains d
what the flood plains were intended to do, which is to absorb the exces
won’t have the kind of inundation (we’re seeing). …
Rather than fight nature, we need to make it our friend.”
Carol Browner, former Obama energy czar

7. On driverless cars: “It’s not the technology that’s
slowing us down. Society has to embrace this.”
James Pisz, corporate manager,
North American business strategy, Toyota U.S.A.

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