Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor.

There’s more to being an environmentalist than occasionally signing an online petition and mailing your check to the Sierra Club. Really the most effective environmental actions you can take have to do with crafting your home and surroundings, your workplace decisions and your investment habits.

I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.

There's no law of physics that says we have to be an unsustainable society - in fact, quite the opposite. The planet's ready to work with us if we're ready to think differently, but we do have to make that jump and start to do things in new ways.

There is no such thing as garbage, just useful stuff in the wrong place.

For most people, using the Internet broadens their sense of who 'we' is and actually ends up leaving us in a place of greater compassion and understanding. It leaves us more connected to a larger group of people and more at one with a lot more people in our community.

Copenhagen has done a remarkable job creating streets that are focused on bicycles and pedestrians.