Quotes from Ed Begley, Jr.

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

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

I think people love nature after they experience it. I know I experienced it as a young man - I took a lot of hikes, I was involved in scouting.

When we destroy something crated by man we call it vandalism but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress.

The two most abundant forms of power on earth are solar and wind, and they're getting cheaper and cheaper.

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.

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

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.

The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.

I'm a strong proponent of green tech for anyone who can afford it, having spent the last 40 years working toward achieving a smaller and smaller eco-impact for myself.

If you're going to drive a Hummer and buy carbon offsets, that's like getting drunk every night and getting into an AA meeting, throwing money in the basket, and leaving.

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 don't want to give up their SUVs. They don't want to turn the thermostat down in the winter and up in the summer.

I've lived a slower and less expensive life going off the grid, and I'm happier because of it.

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

I wanted to be an actor my whole young life. My dad was an actor, obviously - he won an Academy Award, but I had no idea what was involved. I had all the wrong ideas about acting.

If you're not buying recycled products, you're not really recycling.

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.

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.

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

I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.

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.

People don't want to change. It's hard for people to change and it's hard for businesses to change. If I was running an oil company, I would be resistant to change too.