Ed Begley, Jr. Quotes

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

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.

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

I’m not a wealthy person because I was never a star. I was a working actor and a supporting actor.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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

The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.

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