“It’s like being with an Irish priest. You start to confess your sins. ‘Father Al, I am not just a noise polluter, I am a noise-polluting, diesel-soaking, Gulfstream-flying rock star. I’m going to kick the habit. I’m trying, Father Al, but oil has been very good for me—those convoys of articulated lorries, petrochemical products, hair gel.’”
Bono on speaking to Al Gore

I don’t want to go to an electric Formula One race.
Jesse James at the North American International Auto Show (right after he referred to Al Gore as a “dork”)

“My carbon footprint’s pretty shameful, probably. How do you think I got here? It wasn’t on a camel.”
Colin Firth at the Sundance film festival

"If I’m in the grocery store and I’ve forgotten my bag, I load everything up in my arms and carry it out. Okay, I do admit, I have to stop twice because I keep dropping stuff, but I don’t take a bag!
Laurie David on her BYOB (Bring Your Own Bag) habit

“How about the fact that we have presidential candidates who don’t believe in evolution?!”  
Science guy Bill Nye on the biggest problem facing environmentalism and science