Occupation: Environmentalist Birth: December 8, 1960
To me the analogy [to climate change] is... doctors worry a lot about cholesterol. And if you go to the doctor, and the doctor says "oh, your life wo….
The polling data shows not an unbelievable level of concern [on climate issue] but a general awareness of this problem. And now I think it's up to al….
If you were running a solar company you may be okay - you may be able to keep growing. The question for physics is: Can you grow fast enough to begin….
Scientists are telling us that 350 parts per million [of carbon] in the atmosphere is the upper limit. We're at 387 parts per million now, and we're ….
After a lifetime of nature shows and magazine photos, we arrive at the woods conditioned to expect splendor - surprised when the parking lot does not….
Community is as endangered by surplus as it is by deficit. If there is too much money floating around it enables people to have no need of each other..
The seasons don't matter to most of us anymore except as spectacles. In my county and in many places around this part of the nation, the fair that on….
By themselves, they are not enough; we also need to engage in political action..
We're going to need that kind of movement, because the fossil fuel industry is a sprawling adversary - at work everywhere, its tentacles in everybody….
In the scientific community, the debate is over, for all intents and purposes, about whether or not the planet is heating and who is causing it. In f….
I imagine a certain amount of consumer impulse will be replaced by community connection. You can already see it starting with things like the local f….
We use the web to help people organize in the flesh, and then we take the images of those events and put them back on the web to make them add up to ….
On the top of these mile thick slabs of ice the water is percolating quickly to the base and greasing the skids, as it were, for the slide of that ic….
I just keep trying to explain what's going on with our planet - and now, to explain what's going on with our politics, which explains why we're not d….
When you are in a hole, stop digging!.
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 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….
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….
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'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 ….