The movers and shakers on our planet, aren't the billionaires and generals, they are the incredible numbers of people around the world filled with love for neighbor and for the earth who are resisting, remaking, restoring, renewing and revitalising.

The habits of the West in terms of consumption.

Renewable energy is far more labor-intensive than fossil fuel production.

Other thing we need to understand is that the financial power of the fossil fuel industry has so far prevented even any minor progress. They have a sweetheart deal unlike any other business on Earth: they're allowed to dispose of their waste for free, to use the atmosphere as an open sewer. And they will do all they can to defend that special privilege.

Community is as endangered by surplus as it is by deficit. If there is too much money floating around it enables people to have no need of each other.

At least I sure hope it will - and I see good signs all the time, especially in things like the rise of local agriculture.

If [a student's] college’s endowment portfolio has fossil-fuel stock, then their educations are being subsidized by investments that guarantee they won’t have much of a planet on which to make use of their degree.