Occupation: Environmentalist Birth: December 8, 1960
If we all used clotheslines, we could save 30 million tons of coal a year, or shut down 15 nuclear power plants. And you don't have to wait to start.….
According to new research emerging from many quarters that our continued devotion to growth above all is, on balance, making our lives worse, both co….
Very few people on earth ever get to say: 'I am doing, right now, the most important thing I could possibly be doing.' If you'll join this fight that….
The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done..
In fact, corporations are the infants of our society - they know very little except how to grow (though they're very good at that), and they howl whe….
It was huge mistake to avoid working with the rest of the world because (a) we're the largest source of the problem: 4% of us who are in the U.S. pro….
We've lost half the summer sea ice in the Arctic. We've wiped out an enormous percentage of the world's coral reefs. We see huge changes in the plane….
There is no real scientific debate over what is happening; of course there is debate over exactly how it is going to play out in the decades ahead, b….
In the States, the movement's actually gotten much much much stronger. There really was no climate movement so to speak before that - I think because….
I try not to be either optimistic or pessimistic. I try not to think about outcomes on that scale. My job, it seems to me, is to wake up every mornin….
Without a movement pressing for change, there's little hope. We've got to work the political system to make this happen fast. The physics and chemist….
The movers and shakers on our planet, aren't the billionaires and generals, they are the incredible numbers of people around the world filled with lo….
But the truth is that we could win every other fight that we face and if we lose the climate fight, the other victories will be pyrrhic. I don't thin….
We're not at the point of trying to stop global warming; it's too late for that. We're trying to keep it from becoming a complete and utter calamity.
Pat Robertson had decided that global warming was real and we need to do something about it struck me as powerful evidence that the Holy Spirit is ha….
I can't tell how moving it is to open my email and see a picture of 1,500 Buddhist monks and nuns in the Himalayan kingdom of Ladakh forming a human ….
I've got no advice. You guys know where you are and what will work. Just know that there are people all over the place working on this and that there….
I don't know how to make people who absolutely have to be obsessed with paying a week's energy bills... obsessed with climate change... It's very har….
I'm not sure I'm a very good source of advice since we're kind of making this up as we go along..
The irony is that one of the things people want to solve climate change is more market - more price on carbon so that markets have something to chew ….
There's no happy ending where we prevent climate change any more. Now the question is, is it going to be a miserable century or an impossible one, an….