You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet

The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.

We'll never get there if we let the climate crisis bloom unchecked, so for the moment the key is to organize, organize, organize!

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 someone, and then it adds a dollar to the cost of iphones, and everybody's cool.

Sometimes, I, anyway, get tired of playing defence, and like to play offence.

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 that we continue to do it without taking steps to address it strikes me as, among many other things, irreverent in an extreme.

I am still a consumer; the consumer world was the world I emerged into, whose air I breathed for a very long time, and its assumptions still dominate my psyche—but maybe a little less each year....There are times when I can feel the spell breaking in my mind….There are times when I can almost feel myself simply being.