By themselves, they are not enough; we also need to engage in political action..

In the States, I think, the syllogism goes like this: 'free markets solve all problems. Free markets aren't solving global warming, QED global warmin….

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….

Look - every time is the wrong time and the perfect time to have a kid, and you just do it when you can..

At least I sure hope it will - and I see good signs all the time, especially in things like the rise of local agriculture..

One degree turns out to be enough to really unhinge all sorts of earth's ecosystems..

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….

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..

We're clearly not going to stop global warming at this point. We've already raised the temperature of the planet one degree. We've got another degree….

Policies that engage us again in the international fight for real climate protection..

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 ….

I think the same around the world. At 350.org we just trained 500 young people from around the world in Istanbul for a few weeks. We had 5000 applica….

Stop thinking about global warming as a future threat and understand it instead as a present emergency, one that requires a far stronger policy respo….

Probably nothing that we have ever managed to do quite equals the basic undermining of the physical stability of the planet on which most of the worl….

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….

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….

I am still a consumer; the consumer world was the world I emerged into, whose air I breathed for a very long time, and its assumptions still dominate….

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….

Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies..

In the United States, cheap fossil fuel has eroded communities. We're the first people with no real practical need for each other. Everything comes 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….