Occupation: Environmentalist Birth: December 8, 1960
TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour..
I've always been opposed to population control. In climate terms, population is not the biggest problem going forward..
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….
I think the world on the other side of fossil fuel is more local - the logic of sun and wind is diffuse and spread out, not concentrated like the log….
what you do every day is what forms your mind and precious few of us can or would spend most days outdoors..
The idea that China and India will just abandon climate action is not true, because they're doing it for more reasons than we are..
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….
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….
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….
... the constant flow of images undercuts the sense that there's actually something wrong with the world. How can there really be a shortage of whoop….
If the Holy Spirit is capable of the heavy lifting required to get Pat Robertson to change his mind, then that strikes me as a very good sign..
Especially in recent years, the more and more we understand what we are doing, the more we have the science to tell us what we're doing, the fact tha….
The essential thing we need to understand is that the climate crisis is not some future threat, but a very present peril, the biggest one humans have….
We'd already lost the possibility of stopping global warming entirely. That hasn't been in the cards for a long time. The triumph of Trump probably m….
There are many places where we need to fight important battles to make sure that customers have access to solar..
I think that some of it is electoral - helping candidates that are willing to take dramatic actions, not just to say a few words about how climate ch….
In my own faith tradition, these questions have been very important. It has always been easiest for me to apprehend God in the natural world. I love ….
But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness..
If Apple is enslaving Chinese to make its iPhones, you don't need to eat the i-Phone, you need to make sure that Apple is paying a living wage to som….
Where people aren't as deeply reliant on fossil fuel as in the United States, it's far easier for them to imagine change on this scale. When you go t….
We also have to engage - and I think this is important - in national politics because there is no way to address questions of this scale in the short….