Quotes from Ed Begley, Jr.

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

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.

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.

To build a power plant and run lines to houses, to huts, to anything is a tremendous amount of work...how about...just giving them the service where they need it-on the roof of their hut.

My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scout, and I found I really liked being outdoors.

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

The food in Yugoslavia is fine if you like pork tartare.

What we often fail to recognize is how efficient a vegan diet is. Less land, less water, more food for our spiraling population.

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!