I was much more of a naïve techno-optimist than I am now. I still believe that technology can help us come out of this situation with a richer humani….

Ozone and climate are global issues, and it's hard to find a way in which the benefits of shutting down carbon emissions are going to pay for themsel….

By focusing on teaching businesses about the ROI they can achieve by preserving and investing in nature, you're expanding the scope of the impact you….

Playing God is actually the highest expression of human nature. The urges to improve ourselves, to master our environment, and to set our children on….

TNC was once limited by the resources it could directly marshal to buy land. But teaching people a new idea is incredibly more scalable..

If you want to feed the planet and keep the forests we have, you need to be able to grow roughly twice as much food per acre around the world. How do….

You have to be willing to spend an awful lot in that R&D phase before you see the benefits. When you look at the companies that have really won custo….

In the food case in particular, one of the technologies that could help there - genetic technologies that could create better crops with higher yield….

Just like you could dump oil into the Cuyahoga in the 60s and let someone else foot the bill, today you can pump CO2 into the atmosphere and let the ….

New technology lets you grow the resource pie, which is the only way you can get out between that pincer of rising consumption (as we end poverty) an….

If your incentives are set up wrong - if for some reason you reward people for behavior that's actually bad for your customers or your organization -….

If the incentives are aligned right - towards better preservation and restoration of nature and natural resources - then you'll see a tremendous amou….

Today, our incentives aren't set up well - you can make a lot of money burning fossil fuels, digging up wetlands, pumping fossil water out of aquifer….

Whatever my current beliefs are, on any topic, they're all open to being changed by the right facts and the right evidence..

When it comes to trying to manage how our entire planet-wide market and all the people and businesses in it deal with nature and our natural resource….

When you're managing a large number of people, you learn that incentives matter tremendously. You really want people to be rewarded for doing the rig….

Often an idea has impact far larger than the person who originated it..

The more widely you can spread this notion of achieving ROI by preserving and improving ecosystems, the better..

Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage ar….

Technology is incredibly powerful. And in many ways, the sky is the limit in terms of what you can actually accomplish with the right science and the….

I decided five years ago that I wanted to truly understand, for myself, what the state of the planet was, and when I dug into it, what I found was qu….