“Serious environmental challenges lie ahead, and the wireless industry can drive positive change.”
Dan Hesse, CEO, Sprint Nextel
January 2012
“We will keep moving forward with critical investments and smart policies to keep the clean energy jobs and industries of today and tomorrow here in the U.S. and Kansas City.”
Nancy Sutley
Chair, White House Council on Environmental Quality
July 2012
“The important point to remember is that natural fluctuations in the climate system prevent us from confidently predicting, for example, the first year it will be too hot to grow wheat in Kansas or the first summer the Arctic will be ice-free. But crossing both thresholds is assured unless we reduce greenhouse gas emissions. “
Dr. Steven Amstrup
Chief Scientist, Polar Bears International
September 2012
“When I testified before the Senate in the hot summer of 1988, I warned of the kind of future that climate change would bring to us and our planet. I painted a grim picture of the consequences of steadily increasing temperatures, driven by mankind’s use of fossil fuels. But I have a confession to make: I was too optimistic.”
Dr. James E. Hansen
Director, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies since 1981, leading international climate scientist
November 2012
“When you replace an electronic product, please recycle it as soon as possible. Recycle only with certified recyclers; demand information on where your items will go downstream and proof that your e-waste is being properly recycled.”
Bob Akers
Executive director, The Surplus Exchange
January 2013
“If we dare to go beyond where we have been and look at the possibilities for our neighborhoods’ future with hope, possibilities and optimism, then we create a great starting point and can journey upward from there.”
Saundra Hayes
President, Manheim Park Neighborhood Association, Green Impact Zone
July 2013
“If the planet is running a fever, and it surely is, then it is up to all of us to be the white blood cells that come to its defense. It’s starting to happen: there’s the fight against the Keystone pipeline, and the divestment movement now surging across the world as colleges and cities start to sell their fossil fuel stocks. But we need more, much more. We need you.”
Bill McKibben
Founder, 350.org
September 2013
“I think we owe it to our grandchildren to cast off the chains we’ve crafted by assuming that convenience didn’t have a down side and ignorance could maintain integrity. It never has and never will. By participating in the local food system, surrounding our urban areas with vibrant, multi-speciated, nutrient-dense, soil-building, hydrating farms, we liberate ourselves from the path of destruction. Eating local is undoubtedly a profound expression and insurance toward freedom.”
Joel Salatin
Organic farmer, New York Times bestselling author
May 2014
“Kansas City is quickly, and in my opinion, deservedly, developing a reputation for being in the vanguard of energy efficiency and sustainability.”
Ashok Gupta
Director of energy policy and senior energy economist, Natural Resources Defense Council
September 2014
