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.

I'm far less a leader than a writer.

There's always the danger that people will simply sign online petitions, the way they used to just mail in checks, and there's the greater possibility we'll just spend our whole lives staring at screens and never get anything done.

In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing thats going on every single day.

We use the web to help people organize in the flesh, and then we take the images of those events and put them back on the web to make them add up to more than the sum of their parts.

I did very much like [Barack] Obama's attack on fossil fuel subsidies for fossil fuel companies. We asked for that in demonstrations and petitions, and now we'll try to push it forward.

A price on carbon sufficient to keep 80% of current reserves underground, rebated directly to citizens.