Occupation: Environmentalist Birth: December 8, 1960
My goal was to have as many of the primary sources as I could made available for people to look at and understand. Climate change is probably the mos….
I did very much like [Barack] Obama's attack on fossil fuel subsidies for fossil fuel companies. We asked for that in demonstrations and petitions, a….
In certain ways, I think the work in the Evangelical community has been the most interesting and the most promising. Partly because Evangelical congr….
For the first time in 150 years, the USDA reported there were more farms in America, not fewer. That has to make you happy..
Speaking for me, I think the odds of bankrupting Exxon are pretty small, but I think the odds of politically bankrupting them are higher. I think if ….
The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and physics, unfortunately, don't bargai….
Winning slowly is another way of losing. Americans are screwing up our health care system again right now. That's going to cause grave trouble for pe….
Often when I'm on TV, they'll ask what are the three most important things for people to do. I know they want me to say that people should change the….
There are many places where we need to fight important battles to make sure that customers have access to solar..
We have to figure out ways to scare and entice our leaders more effectively than the fossil fuel industry has managed to scare and entice them. They'….
I think fracking for gas will reduce the incentive to turn to renewables, and I think it will do a lot of other damage across the countryside..
We're mathematically past the point where the accumulation of individual actions can add up quickly enough to make a difference. The individual actio….
All things considered, the internet seems fairly environmentally benign to me. The last stats I saw showed you could do 1,000 Google searches for the….
In 50 years, no one will care about the fiscal cliff or the Euro crisis. They'll just ask, "So the Arctic melted, and then what did you do?".
What makes us different? We're the creature that can decide not to do something that we are capable of doing..
Certainly, packets of sea ice, in say the Arctic, which have failed to fully reform in the last couple of years..
There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies f….
I think communities of faith are extremely important in this question. I think that all faith communities share a common and unusual distinction in o….
Because the financial power of the fossil-fuel industry is so great it can, and has, delayed any real action of the climate issues almost everywhere..
Katrina opened a good door and Al Gore went through it with his movie..
Between [Speaker of the House] Paul Ryan, [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell, and Donald Trump's team, I don't see a lot of openings for making….