We have to use our reasoning capacity and set long-term goals based on our deepest values.

The scientific evidence of how serious this climate crisis is becoming continues to amass week after week after week.

I'm not a vegetarian, but I have cut back sharply on the meat that I eat.

Population growth is straining the Earth's resources to the breaking point, and educating girls is the single most important factor in stabilizing that. That, plus helping women gain political and economic power and safeguarding their reproductive rights.

The oil industry has outpaced the building of a public consensus of the implications of climate science.

I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one of my friends made a racist joke and another said, 'Hey man, we don't go for that anymore.'

We can build a collective civic space large enough for all our separate identities, that we can be E Pluribus Unum - Out of One, Many.