“James Russell offers a timely and compelling blueprint for a realistic transformation of America’s energy consumption by refusing to fall victim to conventional thinking.”

Accessible?pragmatic even?Russell’s proposals speak to goals on the immediate horizon and underscore the role that intelligent design can play now in America.

On a longer horizon, his analysis points to a range of issues about land use, transportation, and coordination of public and private investments to which the design professions have an enormous contribution to make. Here design and policy find common ground.

The first law of economics is that when the price goes up, consumption comes down. This is a divine law.

Every day we hear about a new invention here and there and they are reducing considerably their consumption of oil.

I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn’t want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.

The problem with modern consumption and mass-produced products is they’re designed to just literally be shoved into our mouths and rushed.

A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.

When I am consumed by my problems-stressed out about my life, my family, and my job-I actually convey the belief that I think the circumstances are more important than God’s command to always rejoice.

Your beauty is binding and I just want to consume every part of you.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.