As many know, the Chinese expression for "crisis" consists of two characters side by side. The first is the symbol for "danger," the second the symbol for "opportunity."

We are running out of time, we must have a planetary solution to a planetary crisis.

The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested.

Of all the works of civilization that interfere with the natural water distribution system, irrigation has been by far the most pervasive and powerful.

How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?

Two thousand scientists, in a hundred countries, engaged in the most elaborate, well organized scientific collaboration in the history of humankind, have produced long-since a consensus that we will face a string of terrible catastrophes unless we act to prepare ourselves and deal with the underlying causes of global warming.

I didn't realize I was in a Buddhist temple.