We had other currencies that we could find work in - the currencies of movements: passion, spirit, creativity..

Colonialism of one kind or another, imperialism of one kind or another, and slavery, and on and on and on..

A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our nation and abroa….

In the last two years 24 countries have set new all-time temperature records. We've seen flooding on an epic scale in every continent ..

Other thing we need to understand is that the financial power of the fossil fuel industry has so far prevented even any minor progress. They have a s….

Spend 70% of your spare time doing things close to home and the other 30% doing work at the global and national level..

[Barack Obama] done some good things, he's done a couple of bad things. He's obsessed with this all of the above energy policy and... lots and lots o….

I think we need to go straight at the fossil fuel industry..

We'd won the argument 15 years before, we were just losing the fight. And so it became clear to some of us that we would need to organise to fight, t….

When we work all over the planet, it's mostly poor and black and brown and young people, because that's mostly what the world [environmentalism] is..

[Political actions] has to happen on the local and state level; we have to convince our cities to join the growing number of more than 200 American c….

When you go to China and the developing world, people understand more clearly the dangers that are coming at them because they're living closer to th….

Solar power seems to be truly bipartisan in its appeal..

"Science," of course, replaced "God" as a guiding concept for many people after Darwin. Or, really, the two were rolled up into a sticky ball. To som….

Do I think that people should in the best of all possible worlds have to go to jail for wanting the US government to pay attention to the warnings of….

We'll look for almost any reason not to change our attitudes; the inertia of the established order is powerful. If we can think of a plausible, or ev….

We don't know exactly where all the tipping points are in the physical world for inescapable damage, but we're clearly reaching close to some of them..

When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic..

We've built a new Earth. It's not as nice as the old one; it's the greatest mistake humans have ever made, one that we will pay for literally forever..

If we continue to think of ourselves mostly as consumers, it's going to be very hard to bring our environmental troubles under control. But it's also….

A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires..