Ed Begley

“The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.”

“California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.”

“I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!”

“When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.”

“We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the oceans. I've gotta save the dolphins. All worthy efforts, but if you're not centered and you don't have the serenity in your life you need to accomplish that task, you're not going to do a very good job.”

“I bought my first electric car in 1970. Its top speed was 15 mph and it had just a 15 mile range - it was essentially a golf cart with a windshield wiper and a horn.”

“For decades, community colleges have been the backbone of American workforce training. Because they are nimble and closely attuned to local community needs, they are inherently positioned to be influential leaders of the movement for a sustainable economy.”

“I'm not a wealthy person because I was never a star. I was a working actor and a supporting actor.”

“It takes less land to grow a pound of broccoli than it does a pound of beef. Less land to grow a pound of grain than a pound of beef. Less water, less energy.”

“As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.”

“I was a typical Valley teen, in smoggy Van Nuys.”

“For my own health, I thought it was better to eat a plant based diet. I'm going to be 60 soon and I have boundless energy and I feel really good, so I'm all for it.”

“I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.”

“People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.”

“The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.”

“One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.”

“By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind.”

“Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.”

“I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.”

“My favorite form of transportation is walking. I live in a neighborhood where you can walk to restaurants, banks, and shops.”