When I ran the slogan cartoon Thursday, I didn’t think some commenters would actually post slogan ideas. But that thread has some good ideas.
So here’s a dedicated thread for people to post ideas — and to vote on and repost the ones you like the best.
Note that as this compendium from an earlier post makes clear, “What would make a good climate bumper sticker” is not the same as what would make a good energy slogan.
If there are enough good ideas, I’ll do a separate post for a runoff election.
NOTE: Memorable slogans tend to use simple words [Just do it] and/or one or more figures of speech — like repetition [drill, baby, drill], alliteration [compassionate conservative], rhyme [It takes a licking and keeps on ticking] or metaphor [Like a rock, Morning in America].
Previous in TP Climate Progress
Language Intelligence: Lessons on persuasion from Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln, and Lady Gaga
“Use now energy from the sun and wind, don’t burn crud from yesterday.” I’m sure someone can say that better than me, but hey, it’s Saturday morning.
New York Times business columnist Joe Nacero ran a lead piece today called The Joy of Fracking, and he was serious. That’s a good reason why we can’t take that paper seriously any more.
Fossil energy is sequestered Co-2!
If “Drill Baby Drill” works for oil, why not “Blow Baby Blow” to promote wind power?
Negawatts – clean, safe and cheap
(espec for bumper sticker, protest sign, whatever, because might cause people to ask “what is a negawatt?”
NYT did a good piece today on the GOP-run states and their threats to the environment… Sometimes I think titles such as Joy of Fracking is meant to outrage folks enough to click on the article.
Outrage. That’s something that is in precious short demand these days.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/16/science/earth/16enviro.html?_r=2&hp
Stop combustion now!
Say YES to Sol and NO to Coal.
Coal Kills.
Love is fleeting, but CO2 is forever.
Why do you think bad kids get coal for Christmas?
A few slogan ideas (although some work nicely as bumper-sized stickers):
Climate Changed. Humans Didn’t.
Fox News: Ignorance is bliss (Evidently we can’t handle the truth)
Learn about climate change before denying it.
Fossil Fuel = Humanities Meth.
Liar, liar. Plants on Fire.
“Renewable Energy is Homeland Security”
Since you invited reposts.
Oops; typo above: Fossil Fuel: Humanity’s Meth. (In retrospect, not a good “slogan”; too obtuse…)
Change or die.
I liked Dan MB’s suggestion
Clean or Dirty?
http://climateprogress.org/2011/04/14/slogans-and-other-viral-language/#comment-337192
Consider Renewables… because some things that died and were buried long ago should be left that way.
Related News Story:
Extinction-era coal linked to Chinese cancer epidemic
Mary Caperton Morton (Earth Magazine), Jan. 21, 2010
http://www.earthmagazine.org/earth/article/2ed-7da-1-e
Fossil fuel is so 2010!
Burn, Baby!
Burn…
Photo on the left a montage of oil wells, coal cars and tar sands. Photo on the right a montage of someone looking at a thermometer at 110°F, forest fire, and maybe something like the image at the top of this:
Climate change: are you willing to take the risk?
Stephan Lewandowsky, 2 Nov 2010
http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/40652.html
Earth, can’t live without it.
NIMBYETMNBIAFGED – not in my backyard even though my neigboroughs’ backyard is available for good energy develkopment…
I like “Power Shift”. It says so much in so many ways. Drill Baby Drill is dirty and immature and only speaks to that faction in society.
“Power Shift” includes energy and every one of the people behind it. It empowers people. ‘I’ can contribute to a power shift, be it how I vote, change a light bulb to LED, buy local etc. I can take responsibility for the degradation of the planet by fossil fuel and wean myself off sucking at the tit, which is the only thing available to the Drill Baby Drill faction. They are encouraged to keep sucking from cradle to grave no matter how degrading it is to both the planet and themselves.
Sun Shine
Not
Dino Brine
No More War? Renewable Energy.
~~~
Renewable Energy Will Not Poison You.
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Renewable Energy Never Runs Out.
~~~
Grow Your Own At Home. Renewable Energy.
~~~
Radiation? Or Sun and Wind? It’s Your Choice.
~~~
Sun. Wind. Water. It’s All We Need to Power the Planet.
~~~
Blow, Baby, Blow!
Shine, Baby, Shine!
Liar, liar; planet’s on fire.
Burn, Baby!
Burn…
Photo on the left a montage of oil wells, coal cars and tar sands. Photo on the right a montage of someone looking at a thermometer at 110°F, forest fire, and maybe something like the image at the top of this:
Climate change: are you willing to take the risk?
Stephan Lewandowsky, 2 Nov 2010
www abc.net.au/unleashed/40652.html
We were going to offer, “Party, like there is no tomorrow!” but thought better of it. A better one would be more dramatic, “Party Baby Party, there IS no tomorrow”.
We face stark choices that can’t be hidden. We are in a war on CO2 but everyone, who can make a difference, seems to be sleepwalking through it. We have been looking for something, some change in the Zeitgeist that would allow us the luxury of being optimistic about the War’s outcome. We are losing it and no one, who can make a difference, seems to care enough.
It’s the ‘Tragedy of the Commons’ again and again. No one wants to be first in biting the bullet, no one wants to be first to suffer or satisfy themselves with less stuff and surely no one wants to be first to reduce their standard of wasteful living.
So maybe it IS Party Time.
Keep Carbon History.
I like slogans that refer to a desired outcome and at least hint at a course of action to get us there (Give peace a chance, we shall overcome).
To loosen up the creative moments, some parodies:
Sunlight, it’s not just for tanning anymore!
Photons are a girl’s best friend.
And not specific to energy, a ditty came to mind:
I don’t wanna be a fossil,
no, not just another greasy fossil.
No I don’t wanna be a fossil,
lying on the ocean floor.
I want to be a smilin’ grandma,
Yes, just another happy grandma,
With some healthy grand kids
Knocking on the old front door.
Let’s power the future
“Climate change,
deal with it!”
For the Tea Partiers:
Balance our *Energy* Budget!
or
Fight for Freedom from Fossil Fuels!
(Toles-style comment: Or we’re all F-ed!)
There are a huge numbers of better ways to use oil: lubricants, light-weight (recyclable) polymers and composites for greener cars, pharmaceuticals, even in wind turbines.
Oil: too important to burn.
Why don’t conservatives want to conserve energy? Why in fact are they dead set opposed to the idea? They would drill for oil everywhere they could, mine all the coal and other resources, in order to maintain prosperity for the short term.
And then what?
I do NOT want to drill my mother earth.
Fuel oil: It’s not just for burning any more.
(h/t Tim, #27)
Bumper sticker:
Caution: Fossil Fuel Burning May Be Hazardous to Your Civilization
Great topic, and let’s revisit it from time to time. Here are a couple I’ve been playing with, but I’m still searching.
“Drill, Baby, Drill is Dumb, Baby, Dumb” (referencing peak oil)
“Freedom from Oil!” (turns out Rainforest Action Network used it)
For some visuals on these, see http://lavisions.blogspot.com/ .
I like Climate change–are you willing to take the risk?
Real conservatives conserve resources.
Texas: the new Australia
Coal Kills
Use Less.
Live More.
Climate change: It’s about the economy, stupid
Durable Energy: Save the Humans
Flip the Switch
ReCO2nstruct the Economy
We Believe in U.S. Power – Cause Science and Hard Work Don’t Suck
Renewable Power: Energy autonomy that’s good for the economy!
~~~~~~
Chicks dig guys with big solar panels.
~~~~~~
Stick it to the man! Get off-grid now!
~~~~~
My other car is a bicycle.
~~~~~
Shrink big government: stop subsidies to oil.
Some variations on the oil addiction theme:
Just say NO to foreign oil
Just say NO to fossil fuels
DARE to ditch oil and coal – Let the sun into your life
Here are variations on the theme of past and future:
STOP the fossil foolishness
Here comes the sun – there goes the oil
Fossil energy is our past – Solar energy is our future
Oil is Over. Here comes the Sun!
I think I like this last one the best. It really amplifies the themes Obama touched on in his speech last week: the pessimism of the Republicans and the need to embrace the future with hope. Also try chanting: Oil is Over – Here comes the Sun. It would work well at a rally with thousands of voices and also make a nice mantra to chant softly to yourself when you need a spiritual lift!
Clean Energy for our chidlren.
Balance the carbon budget.
Renew American Energy.
It is difficult to think as an advertizing person.
Burning carbon is so Stone Age.
Energy without after-effects.
Smart grid, not planetary devastation.
Build wind turbines; create jobs.
Green America first.
Reduce cancer risk for your children: go green.
You can’t destroy the Sun by using its energy.
Wind and solar: free energy.
Funny, I was just thinking last night that I wish someone would make bumber stickers which said the following…
“BELIEVE IN THE RAPTURE? THEN HELP STOP GLOBAL WARMING! (GOD SAID, “I WILL DESTROY THOSE WHO DESTROY THE EARTH!”)
or… “BELIEVE IN THE RAPTURE? THEN RE-THINK GLOBAL WARMING! “I WILL DESTROY THOSE WHO DESTROY THE EARTH” (then put where it’s located in the Bible).
Many right wing Fundamentalists are ignoring the issue of GW because they believe in the “Rapture”. If they realized that if anyone is in danger of being cast into a lake of burning fire, it’s them (not us!) they would think twice! (Not that I believe in the Rapture, personally!)
GLOBAL CLIMATE DESTABILIZATION– READY OR NOT; HERE IT COMES!
Drill Till Baby Ill
Clean Energy Now!
I think we need to connect patriotism with being green. Achieving this would usurp the tea party crowd from claiming they are actually patriots (which they are, just woefully misinformed)
Real Patriots use less gas.
Be a patriot – use less fuel.
Its patriotic to drive slower.
Keep America Red, White Blue and GREEN.
Stop whining and change your light bulbs!
Help stop terrorism – use less gas!
A clean America is a strong America!
Don’t Smother Mother Earth: stop climate change
(I also like the forementioned, “There’s No Planet B”)
“Value Change for Survival,” is a frequent motto of Oren Lyons, Onondaga faith keeper, who travels the world on environmental issues.
He attributes the phrase, “Value Change for Survival,” to Akio Matsumura in 1991.
Energy FROM the SEAS, instead of from OVERSEAS!
A GREEN AMERICA IS A PROSPEROUS AMERICA!
End the solar deficit.
Climate Change: its only getting worse.
Global Warming causes Climate Change. Both are caused by our abuse of Earth.
The Oxygen we breathe is being displaced by Carbon Dioxide from wasteful use of coal, gas and oil. (Although technically true, it’s not serious in and of itself, I understand. It does, however, counter the CO2 is good for (some) plants meme.)
Remember the Good Old Days when CO2 was only 350 ppm? (That was in the 1980s, Dude.)
We’d be experiencing slight Global Cooling if it wasn’t for excessive Anthropogenic Global Warming.
Oil, Coal, Climate, War!!!! Yeaaaaah!!!!
(Obnoxious background heavy metal music)
Of the above my favorites are
Save the humans
Drill, baby ill
And one slighly changed: Stop funding terrorists – conserve oil.
when you’re in a hole, stop digging
green is the color
Join the American Energy
Freedom Revolution Now!
This is not a Drill
Energy Freedom Now!
Health, Wealth, Peace
Energy Freedom Now!
.
DRILL TILL BABY ILL
ENERGY FREEDOM NOW!
.
Renewables mean never having to say your sorry.
BP, Exxon, Saudi Arabia: No. Renewable Energy: Yes.
Stop exporting dollars to despots: Use Renewable Energy.
Drill? Don’t be a pill. Use homegrown renewable energy.
Fossil fools: coal’s not cool.
Wind and sun: You don’t have to drill.
Support your local Plutocrat: Buy oil and coal.
It’s not neat to deplete.
Drill, baby? Got cancer and asthma?
Fossil fuels means always saying your sorry.
Stay Resolute and do not pollute?
Horses for courses, protect our resources?
I know not exactly shakespeare!
(oops ok let’s do this on a real computer that can’t click ‘send’ as a typo)
when you’re in a hole, stop digging
green is the color of life
own your power
wind turbines are totally un-sheik
clean is worth it
let’s build a clean energy legacy
we can fix it
coal is the debt our kids can’t pay
think clean jobs
pollution sends our future up in smoke
build green, breathe free
build it like tomorrow matters
bring it on
let’s get it started
oil made them rich, not smart
a new industrial revolution
dirty energy is stone age tech
make america shine
Favorite bumper sticker….
“ClimateProgress.org”
Runners up
“jesus loves solar”
“RemoteNuclearFusion.org”
Loving Earth now so our grandkids have a future.
dp’s
“Make America Shine,”
has the positive outcome and the implicit course of action components that I have been looking for.
I’d probably modify it at times to “We Make America Shine,” or even,
“We Shall Make America Shine.”
It has plenty of build out nuances: more sun-based energy, less pollution, more to be proud of.
Kelpie #41 likes the Beatles!
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks!
Renewable energy – It’s our future, stupid.
Stop Burning Stuff!
The atmosphere: friend me.
Climate Hawks: Engage!
Its the climate stupid.
Save the climate, save the world.
Peak Oil Kills!
Change Our Climate!
Our Climate Change.
Koal Kills!
E=SW2 (solar/wind sqrd)
Fossilize Coal!
Nuclear in your backyard!
Radiation times
Feel the nuclear afterglow?
Fossil Fuels Are For Fossils!
FFAFF! (acronym of above)
Negative (but useful) slogans:
Coal Kills!
Koch Kills!
Oil is Over!
Stop Burning Stuff!
Fossil Fuels Are For Fossils!
Can be followed by the ultra-positive:
Here Comes the Sun!
The former (rotating) on the left side of the vehicle bumper (ideally not a mega-Hummer but public transportation, electric vehicle, plug-in hybrid, hybrid), then “Here Comes the Sun!” as the answer on the right.
These can also be placed along a rear bike fender. My bike has been parked at the University of Colorado and other universities, at NCAR, NOAA, NSIDC, INSTAAR, CIRES, USGS and downtown Boulder and Portland and at my climate change talks and panels thousands of times total, so the number of quality views would be high. (And yes, as a matter of fact I am fond of preaching to the choir. We need it all, including a constantly growing choir comprised of singers who can go out and preach themselves.)
Also Mark at #62′s great idea:
“ClimateProgress.Org”
Energy, save for your future.
don’t burn the world
or
don’t burn the future
Blow me.
I choose not to own a car, I only have a bus pass and a bicycle.
Slogans for your bicycle:
The quiet revolution
One less car
Roll your own
Burn calories, not oil
Start a revolution
The fun is between my legs
I Like Bike
Slogans for your bus:
50 fewer cars
Kick the car habit
**** Nature! Embrace Pollution! Vote Coal!
Bitter sarcasm gets the message across better.
Hey 65 – you’re right, I was thinking of the Beatles. Remember they used to be more famous than Jesus! (Showing my age) Anyway, everyone loves Beatles songs so you can’t go wrong. Here’s a slight rewrite of the lyrics to go with the slogan:
Oil is Over. Here comes the Sun.
Here comes the sun, do do do do
Here comes the sun, and I say
It’s all right
Little darling
The oil and coal are almost gone now
Little darling
The wind and sun are always here
Here comes the sun, do do do do
Here comes the sun, and I say
It’s all right
Little darling
The smiles returning to the faces
Little darling
It seems like years since we’ve been clear
Here comes the sun, do do do do
Here comes the sun, and I say
It’s all right
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Little darling
We need to stop the ice from melting
Little darling
It’s time to clean our atmosphere
Here comes the sun, do do do do
Here comes the sun, and I say
It’s all right
Here comes the sun, do do do do
Here comes the sun
It’s all right
It’s all right
A quick search in youtube or your song list for wave, wind, blow, sun, shine etc gets so many catchy songs to accompany some imagery
wind & airborne wind power
Clapton – “Let it
growblow”Berlin – “Blowin’ sky high”
Bon Jovi – “Wild is the wind”
Queen – Ride the wild wind”
solar power
Beatles – “Good day sunshine”
Katrina & the Waves – “
WalkingWorking on sunshine”Linda Rondstat – “Heatwave”
wave energy
Belinda Carlisle – “Deep deep ocean”
Toad The Wet Sprocket – “Waves on the ocean”
OK, so maybe not that–
But how about:
Cut Loose! –Would work in speeches: “It’s time for America’s Energy to cut loose! Cut loose from foreign oil, cut loose from global warming, cut loose from resource wars, cut loose from fracking, cut loose from mountain top removal, cut loose from dirty air and dirty water! It’s time to cut loose America! It’s time to cut loose and dance with our children into a clean, peaceful, secure, and prosperous future! Cut loose!”
Renew Me!
The Power of Cool!
Play it Again, Sun!
Plug into Today for Tomorrow!
Plug into the Sun
Plug into the Future
Renewable Energy, Renewable Future
Harnessing the Future
Small Footprint, Big Future
Running on Today!
Today’s Power Today
The Power of Now
Hot to be Cool
Bumper Stickers:
Fossil Fuel: Hot Today and Hotter Tomorrow
Renewables: It’s Hot to Be Cool
Renewable Energy: Plug into the Future
Renewable Energy: Harnessing the Future
Renewable Energy: Harnessing Today for Tomorrow
Renewables: The Power of Cool
@#75: I’m assuming there’s a wind turbine next to your slogan! (Great one if so!)
Besides my (early in this thread) negawatts suggestion…
I like “Earth, can’t live without it” or
Climate, can’t survive without it
Time for a power shift
Real men don’t need…
and ideas at #40 (CW)
And yes, many of my votes to “There is no Planet B”
(thanks for the reminder Andy Brown, and you can buy the T-shirt (from Funny Times, maybe elsewhere too)
And something about how renewable energy is good enough for our troops in Afghanistan. This is more ad than bumper sticker sized idea. On the real men don’t need etc. (except er they do need some).
Fossil fuels are for fossil fools.
Here’s one for your consideration. Don’t think it’s been suggested yet.
FOSSIL FUELS ARE DEAD
And one more.
DON’T BURN THE FUTURE
Today the Arctic
Tomorrow the World
Global Clmiate Meltdown
Renew hope — Use Renewable energy
Renew America — Vote Renewable energy
It’s morning in America — for renewable energy sources.
But it’s twilight for fossil fuels.
That last one has a number of possible permutations, including:
DON’T BURN THE FUTURE IN YOUR GAS TANK
WIND & SOLAR DON’T BURN THE FUTURE
DON’T BURN THE FUTURE – SAY NO TO CO2
Fossil Fail
These are great slogans, but does anyone else see the irony in having them on the bumper of a conventional gas or diesel-burning car?
Richard, well yes, but somewhat less ironic than the Rejectionist Party legislating science education…
Get Over Oil! (on a bike)
GOO! (on a pacifier)
I’ve put a “Blow, Baby, Blow!” design up on http://www.cafepress.com/GoodEnergySlogans – go nuts! :) If it gets popular I might get someone local to screen it…
Sat 4/16 7:50 Eastern Time
EPA’s Lisa Jackson and 350.org’s Bill McKibben to address Power Shift 2011 LIVE
http://www.powershift2011.org/live
Clean coal is a dirty lie.
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Oil and Water Don’t Mix.
I like Tim #7. Sol not coal
There is also ‘wind not gas’ ME
Oil companies vs. America’s clean energy-green jobs economic future.
Global warming requires a global warning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akUzFbxTsfo
Or, “Mill baby mill!” Referring to windmills.
Bill McKibben just said of DC “This city is polluted by money.”
http://www.powershift2011.org/live
Oil will spoil your toil with a royal climate boil.
Merrelyn (#94) – I like it, “Break Gas Not Wind.”
Also, I answered one of your comments at the previous incarnation of this post eight posts below at comment #41.
Unfortunately my answer was too long for a bumper sticker, unless for an ocean liner (solar powered – could we ever power a ship with wind?) or tattooed into Rush Limbaugh’s backside.
Fossil Fuel: The Real Death Tax
How about taking over their slogans about the federal deficit:
stop mortgaging our kids future – changed to – stop burning our kids future
Let’s get a CO2 counter up in Times Square. I bet Ted Turner would pay for it.
And create a database of our slogans, like this one… http://www.teapartyslogans.com/cgi-bin/web/index.cgi
Hi Richard #102. You are hilarious!
Yep, I’ve answered your #41 but its stuck in the moderation sphere, ME
Two simple ones with the first one being easily understandable to a larger swath of the population:
Wind is free
&
Sunlight is free
I’ve seen “Coal-Blooded Killers” somewhere else.
“change or die” is good.
Win with Wind.
Solar Success Story.
Fossil Fuels are Finite.
How about…
Energy: Let’s keep it clean, folks.
And I suggest having Morgan Freeman say it!
Stop Burning Our Future
Clean Energy Now! We’ll all breathe easier
Carbons Already Sequestered. Leave it in the ground!
Renewable Energy Made in America
1. Solar thrills, carbon kills.
2. Wind keeps turning after coal stops burning.
3. Stop the price hike, use the sun.
4. Clean cars make cents.
Richard Cohen @ 50;
One of yours is so close to being “catchy” (viral marketing commandment #2) I had to edit, please say it out loud as you read it, listen to the cadence:
Sea Energy.. Not Overseas Energy
And ME @ 97;
Solar NOT Coal’errr
The urrr sound implies error, indecision, and stalling in our culture, and some others. Anyone reading this on a bumper sticker, with a shining ray on one side (guess which one) and a dark dirty side (and which side would that be) would hear the URRR in their mind, if even for a second.
I’d love to have a Clean or Dirty? bumper sticker with some graphics. One essential of transformative communication is your “message” must provide a positive vision. That positive vision can arise from either positive or negative words and phrases, and from either positive or negative images.
I recall the ad from the 60′s that had images of people from upper thigh to upper chest walking towards the camera, almost all of them were on busy sidewalks with lots of other people just in camera. There were sexy, skinny, fat, jiggly, wildly clothed, and bikini clad (as memory serves me) and lots of “suits”. The simple tag line was, “No matter what shape your stomach’s in.” It was an ad for antacids. The subliminal message, “Good, bad, and ugly together we make up the human community.” Take Tums, or Alka-Seltzer, and we’ll all be together. That positive “vision” (again speaking in marketing terminology) would not have arisen from just beautiful midriffs. To be “genuine” it needed to link good, bad, and indifferent with “community”. It rebranded that as buy our product.
However crass it may sound we’re to some extent in great need of pitching our product. In this case it’s a vision of a future that rewards progress towards a clean, healthy, and comfortable life for as many as is possible.
I believe when we shape that into a simple, clear, and compelling vision we’ll tip the scales.
Understanding how to shape that vision with rhetoric, cultural means, and marketing techniques will not corrupt that vision. More later…
Sorry to be late to this comment thread. We were at an electric car Home Party at James Billmaier’s home. It was cold, but it was hot! He’s got the vision thing down.
1. We Need To Stop Burning Hydrocarbons And Start Burning Carbohydrates.
2. BP Can Suck My Electric Car (bumper sticker for my new Nissan Leaf electric)
3. A bit long for a slogan, but here goes:
I Want To See:
American Solar Panels,
American Wind Turbines And
American Electric Cars Getting Made In
American Factories Outside
American Cities and Towns By
American Workers Making An
American Wage, Belonging To An
American Union, Using
American Machine Tools And Their
American Hands.
Why Doesn’t The U.S. Chamber Of Commerce?
Wow these are getting GOOD everybody. Saturday Nite has you all cutting loose.
Keep it clean.
Drill Baby Drill = Spill Baby Spill
Off I go to the grocery store and bumper sticker possibilities arise. One I forgot, the better one methinks. Here’s the other:
Clean Energy Changes the Game
Footnote:
One bumper sticker repeated over and over won’t pivot our fate in a favorable direction. Many bumper stickers on similar themes: Clean is the Future, Clean is the Robust/Macho/Life-Affirming/Opportunity Future, etc. Will help us prevail, because Clean really does Change the Game.
Palinites, Cheney Zombies, and mis-directed Tea Partiers know only to hold on to what they’ve always done and always known. Changing the Game is the worst thing that could happen to them.
And most Bleu-Dog (that’s French, you know) Dem’s.
Renewables NOW!
We need to regain some of that fierce urgency of now.
Lead with the presumed action (build RE installations).
Explain 3 benefits ( more jobs, less pollution, retained wealth).
Give 3 project examples (csp out west, pv in new jersey, wind in Iowa).
Give 3 examples of how we get there (FIT, RPS, solar mortgage, loan guarantees, C&T)
People need to see that these installations are being being built and that progressive policies are making this possible. And that more progressives in congress results in more projects.
Our 2001 Prius bumper sticker said: “Fuel Efficient Patriot”.
Just as in Cricket each run saved is each run made,so also in energy,”EACH Kwh saved is each Kwh Generated”.
“Energy – Waste not and Want not”.
Conservation: It costs nothing – It saves something.
Are you caring for Tomorrow? – Conserve Energy.
Put RENEWABLES to WORK: To get inexhaustible,Pollution-free Energy which cannot be misused.
Dr.A.Jagadeesh Nellore(AP),India
Merrelyn (#104) – What an excellent answer to my mediocre answer of your original comment eight posts below (in the first incarnation of this post)!
To read Merrelyn at her best, anyone else should visit there as well, including fellow deep thinkers Mulga, Sailesh, Ed, etc.
Merrelyn consistently out-debates me even when our comments are stuck in moderation (my answer to you will be #47 after it limps out of purgatory) and now I’m finding telepathically as well.
In the late ’70′s I got a button that read SUN POWER: ENERGY WITHOUT WAR
Also from that time: NUCLEAR POWER IS SAFE- 93,000,000 MILES AWAY
though that one focuses on safety rather than the real killer argument, which is costs.
REMOTE FUSION would be short enough for a bumper sticker, and technically would include most renewables; all except tides and geothermal.
So I say it again. REMOTE FUSION.
There are some good ones here. I picked the ones that are specifically about energy and are positive, not reactionary, not alarmist (so many people hate alarmism) but optimistic, not embittered or sarcastic, and don’t contain cultural references that not everyone might get:
Renewable energy never runs out
Let’s power the future
Freedom from oil
Fossil energy is our past – renewable energy is our future
Energy freedom now!
@108 Tyler Hamilton
Yes, keep it clean!
350 mpg & 350 ppm
(Or, for some bold cyclists, 1000 mpg & 350 ppm)
Some of the logos are brief enough to fit on a bike pannier — or be read off of a cyclist’s back in traffic. So how about calculating the human mpg? Particularly the mpg of doing hard work, like a cyclist hauling a trailer loaded with materials?
I’ll cross post this to the open thread.
I don’t have all the data, but here is a start from some web calculations that should be scrutinized. Supposedly, a 175 lb cyclist at 15 mph burns 34 calories per mile, and thus would be able to go 914 miles on the calorie-content of a gallon of gas, 31,000 calories of fossil energy.
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/question527.htm
Bicycles are used to haul loads so for that the mpg would be comparatively less. If a wiry little 98 lb cyclist is pulling a 600-pound load on a two-wheel cart, at 5 mph, what is the equivalent mpg?
For cyclists without loads moving at 10 miles an hour, the range of calories per mile is around 29 (160 lb cyclist) to 43 (240 lb cyclist). Looks like another fun puzzle.
In your best Peter, Paul and Mary voices…
The… answer… my… friend… is… blowing… in… the… wind…
Frack is Wack
A take-off from Keith Haring’s famous antidrug slogan, Crack is Wack. It’s pithy, has street cred, and links a problematic drilling practice for fossil fuel to drug addiction, which is arguably apropos. And it lends itself to great poster and T-shirt designs.
And many thanks Joe for opening up this forum and posting all these ideas.
I offer one more:
Change or Dire
Number 26 say the slogan should define a desired outcome and a hint at how to get there….its more positive and I think people will respond to it more. I think I see fewer of those in this list and also very little about conservation/weatherization which means immediate technology, immediate jobs, immediate energy and money savings.
My favorites from a very good list (no order):
Conservation means jobs now.
Renewable Energy: Plug in to the Future
Sustainable Energy: Save the Humans
Energy without After-Effects
Coal is a Debt our Kids Can’t Pay
Earth: Can’t Live without it.
There’s no Planet “B”
Climate Hawks Unite! (or Engage as the writer suggested)
Real Patriots Use Less Gas
When you’re in a hole, stop digging (says nothing about energy, however)
Climate Progress.org
Power Shift
Fossil Fuel: Hot Today; Hotter Tomorrow
Oh, what the heck.
In big letters:
Your
Great-Grandchildren
Are
Dead
underneath, in small letters:
Global Boiling, Starving, Poisoning, Destroying
Climate Doubt = Drought
If you ruin your planet, where’re you gonna live?
Global warming is just fever, the economic system is the disease!
Ones I like most from above:
• Power Shift
• Clean or Dirty?
• Clean Coal is a Dirty Lie
• Fossil Fail
• ‘Mill Baby ‘Mill
• Save the Humans
Modified:
• Fossil Fuels: Dead and Buried
• Fossil Fools Can’t Keep Us Cool
Ones I came up with:
• Burn It and Urn It (or: Burn It All and Urn It All)
• Why Resurrect Dead Energy?
• What Are You Smoking? (or: No Thanks, I Don’t Smoke Energy)
• Goldilocks or Venus
• Grow Green or Fossil Fade Away
• Exhaust Has a Cost (or: Exhaust All Oil and We All Boil)
• Green Grows, Coal Slows
• Once You Go Green, You’ll Never Go Black
What energy slogan would help activate the most people and generate the most positive action, now?
Global Warming
a Two-Second Morality Play
Characters:
Humanity
All other life on Earth
Act I
(Humanity *looks at watch*)
Humanity: “God’s late. Should we start without him?”
@ ellen knight
“When you’re in a hole, stop digging (says nothing about energy, however)”
yeah it does. in fact i meant it as a comeback to drill baby drill.
• Ignore Our Carbon Debt, and There Will Be Hell to Pay
• The Climate Beast is Getting Angry (or getting angry at our meager sacrifices, idea from Wallace Broecker)
New U.S. Energy Policy: Look Up, not Down
Graphic would be a horizontal line suggesting ground level. Wind turbine and Sun is above (Up). Fracking well, OIl and coal below the line
(use wind and solar) not oil ,coal and gas
There is no freer man than the one who uses sun from his roof or wind from his land
My votes:
Phrases for talking about the issue – reshaping the frame – creating a meme…:
Freedom from coal
Conservation: It costs nothing – It saves something
#114 would make a good commercial: I Want To See: American Solar Panels, American Wind Turbines And
American Electric Cars Getting Made In….America Using American Machine Tools And Their
American Hands. Why Doesn’t The U.S. Chamber Of Commerce?
My idea, as reported in the media: “Clean energy hawks are looking for a power shift” – I like clean energy hawks better than climate hawks because it is unclear if climate hawks means the deniers.
Also something along the lines of beating swords into ploughshares: We will beat coal mines into wind turbines, coal-fired turbines into wind-powered turbines, shape coal miners into wind farmers, coal mining companies into sun mining companies…
I still have a bunch of bumperstickers I had printed about twenty years ago – they didn’t sell well and I’m not a salesman. Picture of the planet Earth and the slogan “Love It Or Leave It!”
My favorite, whether or not it is any good: “Efficiency is the Answer. What’s the Question?”
One that popped out of my dyslexic quick read of #9 above:
“Liar Liar Planet on Fire”
“Since When is Fossil Fuel Addiction a Family Value?”
I struggle with ways to recapture the sense that Americans had in the 1950′s, coming out of the WWII era, that we were the people in the world who CAN DO anything that needs to be done. Maybe “Clean Energy – For People who Like Things That Work”. I’ll look for any better suggestions.
- Ned
Be a Climate Hawk, not a Climate Chicken/Dodo/Ostrich/Zombie
and wear a Climate Hawk pin – get one here:
http://witsendnj.blogspot.com/p/climate-hawk-pin.html
Richard #122, I’ve added a #51 to the first edition below. I’ll have to get the hang of leaping about on this moving caravan, ME
I agree that these needn’t be bumper stickers, but we do need good slogans. So, just for fun:
A take-off on an early slogan:
Friends don’t let friends die of global warming.
Deflate energy use, inflate your wallet.
Carbon sequestration – leave coal under the ground, and trees on top of it.
No worries, mate. Climate change only occurs on round planets.
Global warming will put a chill on our economy.
Federal Deficit (very small font) vs. Environmental Deficit (very large font)
You choose
Musical slogan (think Roberta Flack)
Killing me softly with your coal …
And since any decent movement needs a good song, I took the liberty of looking up the lyrics for that song (http://www.stlyrics.com/songs/r/robertaflack8341/killingmesoftlywithhissong288482.html) and revised the first couple of refrains. Sung sweetly as Roberta Flack does, I think it might sound appropriate:
Causing me pain with your CO2
Stinging my lungs with your plumes
Killing me softly with your coal
Killing me softly with our coal
Telling the whole story with your toxics
Killing me softly, with your coal
I heard you wove a good yarn
I heard you had a smile
And so I came to see you and listen for awhile
And there you were this coal company
A stranger to earth’s ways…
Renewables, Energy we can live with!
Merrelyn (#145) – Again I answered your wonderful answers, and hope not to be beating a dead horse, or if so, doing so cooperatively.
I just think that your comments are so profound that all who are interested here should go eight posts below to the original slogan post (the one with the elephant and mysteriously pregnant donkey pictured) to absorb Merrelyn’s essays about cooperation being the law of life.
And I generally throw a competitive monkey into the gears of her concise essays, but oh well.
Your leaders are stuck on stupid.
Intelligent leaders are a change we could believe in.
(Thanks, Van Jones)
Twilight for Fossil Fuels
Clean Energy is Growing Strong
It’s Sunset for Fossil Fuels, Dawn for Clean Energy
“Electric energy will be a bigger market than the Internet.” James Doerr
21st Century – the Electriconomy
And to get ‘em wondering what the “Electriconomy” is:
The Emerging Electriconomy – $6 TRILLION per year
Liberate Us From Dirty Energy
Real patriots use clean energy.
Richard #149. Couldn’t let you get away with that one, see #53 on the first edition of this posting below – its arrived back from the moderation ether, ME
Combustion is the problem.
154. Jonathan
Right on—and Lovelock thinks the “Three C’s” of Combustion, Cattle, and Chainsaws are the problem.
Clean Energy – We Can Do It!
Clean Energy – No Wars Required!
Clean Energy – We Have The Power!
Flip the Switch to Clean Power!
Clean Energy – Protect America’s Future!
Crack a Window – Clean Energy Now!
Americans Unite for a Clean Energy Future!
Green Energy Jobs Now!
One Million Green Energy Jobs in 2012!
A Dollar a Day for Clean Energy.
Stay Cool With Clean Energy!
Let’s Help Our Planet Keep Her Cool!
Our Planet is Pretty Cool. Let’s Keep It That Way!
Clean Energy – It’s What The Cool Kids Are Doing!
2011: Our Climate is on Thin Ice.
If Anyone Can Solve Global Warming, Americans Can!
There Will Be a Green Energy Superpower. Who Will it Be?
Innovation, Conservation, A Healthy Nation!
America Can’t Wait for Green Energy Innovation!
Green Power: Let’s Leave a Livable Earth.
Green Power Today for a Livable Tomorrow.
A small footprint: Just about the only thing I’ve got in common with Cinderella.
Clean Energy: Because I’m Not Ready for the Apocalypse!
Ask Me About My BioDiesel/Electric/Solar/Hybrid/Hi Mileage/Human Powered Vehicle!
Ask Me About My Solar Panels!
Coal is a Dirty Word.
Coal – I’m Not Digging It!
Last Night I Dreamed My Grandchildren Were Drinking Cool Water and Breathing Fresh Air.
[also, this isn't really what we're looking for here, but you might find it amusing: one of my favorite bumper stickers EVER was one that someone could surreptitiously place on an SUV or other inefficient vehicle: "I'm changing the climate, ask me how!"]
Funnily enough, the Climate Alliance in the UK is searching for the same thing: “Clean energy, sufficient and affordable” is one contribution I liked.
Save Our Society
Ever notice how the US far right is fencing out their southern neighbors, but leaving their own northern escape routes wide open, while at the same time denying climate change? THEIR motto seems to be “TURN UP THE HEAT, BOYS”
Renew + Repower = Restore + Relief
or
Renew, Repower, Restore, Relief.
Renew = renewable energy sources
Repower = electrify transportation and smart grid
Restore = cleaner air, water, etc. No more mountaintop removal mining.
Relief = relief from volatile fuel prices, relief from pollution, relief from the worst consequences of climate change.
CLEAN, GREEN & SECURE
Our JUCCCE slogan is “rethink energy, reshape the world”.
For consumer messaging we like to use “everyone can be a green hero everyday”.
Ridicule and telling satire is needed. How about:
Yer GOTTA get rich before yer get CLEAN
so LETS go piss on the GRAN’chillen !!
Regards,
Lewis
Lewis C #163: Did you mean to say,
“You gotta get DIRTY before you get CLEAN…” ?
Drawing from the acronym and free Web book of John and Mary Ellen Harte (see http://www.CoolTheEarth.us), I’d suggest:
The solution is E.A.S.Y
Energy efficiency, with
Alternative autos,
Solar and renewables, and
Your wise choices
350 or burn
Today’s tornados/floods/droughts –
You haven’t seen nothin’ yet!
I really like leptoquark’s poem: “I want to See:” (#115)
(It’s going up on the bulletin board at work.)
American know-how unwittingly gave us Global Warming.
American know-how can, and must, reverse it
With Conservation, Solar, Wind, Geothermal, Tidal, CO2 Sequestration
And with brilliant ideas we haven’t heard of yet.
Pass a law to require all CO2 in fizzy drinks to come from CO2 sequestration!
I also like Peggy’s (#162) & JUCCCE’s (Joint US-China Collaboration on Clean Energy – I googled it)
“rethink energy, reshape the world” and
“Everyone can be a green hero everyday.”
Work with those you don’t like to solve the Earth’s problems -
Any other way will bring about serious Global Warming and disastrous Climate Change.
My votes:
Windmills Not Oil Spills
Stop Fossil Fools
Don’t Frak Our Planet
Clean or Dirty?
Clean Energy: Save Money, Save the Planet
Balance the Energy Budget
Exhaust Has a Cost
Exhaust All Oil and We All Boil
Renewables: Energy Without War
There’s No Planet B
Clean Energy Now
Just came up with a rhyme:
If we don’t use wind, water and sun
Our children’s future won’t be fun.
I like Wayne’s (#132). Ha, ha, ha!! (Sad, really, but blunt as heck!)
When I googled a slogan I thought was original, I found all these in the mission statement of the German energy company Younicos:
The most important energy is the one in our heads.
We burn for green energy.
Let the fossils rest in peace.
Our mission: no emission
http://www.younicos.com/en/aboutus/mission.html