Building Sustainable Cities: 5 Big IdeasNew York Times Energy for Tomorrow Conference | April 25, 2013

Photos: Piotr Redlinski

“Stop and think about it: All the progress that is being made in this country, and really around the world, is not made by the

federal government or by state governments. It has been made by cities, who are actually leading the ways on climate change.”

Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York City

“If we could just improve the energy efficiency of our homes by 10%, that's like taking 18 million cars off of our streets and roads.”

Shaun Donovan, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

“If you put a frog in cold water and slowly bring up the temperature, it will eventually boil to death. This is the problem with trash. We are slowly boiling to death and not realizing it.”

Jeremy Irons, executive producer of the documentary “Trashed”

“The reason local food tends to be more expensive .... is because the distribution and infrastructure angle, for which cities could

invest in.”Dan Barber, chef and co-owner, Blue Hill at Stone Barns

“Nature is pretty good at protecting itself. If we let the flood plains do what the flood plains were intended to do, which is to absorb the excess, we

won’t have the kind of inundation (we’re seeing). … Rather than fight nature, we need to make it our friend.”

Carol Browner, former Obama energy czar

On driverless cars: “It’s not the technology that’s slowing us down. Society has to embrace this.”

James Pisz, corporate manager, North American business strategy, Toyota U.S.A.

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