Occupation: Environmentalist Birth: December 8, 1960
The Arctic and the Antarctic are melting quickly. We may have waited too long to get started. But this is a day for optimism because the battle is fu….
I think the best way is to keep stressing, that, as we build out a new energy system, one of the best things about it, if we do it right, will be tha….
I also think we need unconventional political action, and I increasingly think that there is a need for people of faith to be able to do the kind of ….
We have to transition to new technologies, making it more expensive to continue with the old and polluting technologies and cheaper to go to the clea….
If it's wrong to wreck the planet, it's wrong to profit from the wreckage..
The thing about global warming is that you can address it on a great number of levels - in fact you have to..
That's why people are standing up again to fight the Keystone pipeline in Nebraska and South Dakota and Montana. Everyone is well aware of what this ….
[Kids] will grow up into a world that's difficult and wonderful, and they'll make the best of it they can, and hopefully help turn it in the best pos….
The fight around climate change, which I've spent my life on, is somewhat more difficult than gay marriages because no one makes trillions of dollars….
A price on carbon sufficient to keep 80% of current reserves underground, rebated directly to citizens..
What we're talking about is the endless, gullible elevation of necessary levels of comfort and status and everything else at the complete expense of ….
So far the earth has warmed about a degree Fahrenheit globally averaged. That doesn't seem like an enormous amount but it's unlike what we would have….
It now appears that the fracturing of that ice is happening much more quickly than people previously thought, apparently at a slow melt..
I guess the underlying principle might be, don't make it too easy for them to stereotype you..
There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions..
If one wanted to stigmaitise, that's how one would do it - lots and lots of people saying "we're severing our ties"..
We spend probably more of our time than we should, just because it's close to home, worrying about the West. But it's equally important to figure out….
Those of us in the west have figured out a lot of ways to damage the lives of poor people in this country and around the world over the years..
Despite the array of groups and organizations working on global warming, we are still missing a key element: the movement. Along with the hard work o….
All the things that we've done as a species have had a limited scope. We're talking about melting the ice caps, raising the level of the seas dramati….
Human beings any one of us, and our species as a whole are not all-important, not at the center of the world. That is the one essential piece of info….