what sets wilderness apart in the modern day is not that it's dangerous (it's almost certainly safer than any town or road) or that it's solitary (you can, so they say, be alone in a crowded room) or full of exotic animals (there are more at the zoo). it's that five miles out in the woods you can't buy anything.

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

The latest computer modeling I've seen indicates that at mid-century, there might be 150 million people classified as "environmental refugees."

There's no happy ending where we prevent climate change any more. Now the question is, is it going to be a miserable century or an impossible one, and what comes after that.

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.

We'd like to get the fossil fuel industry on the back foot for a while, having to deal with us.

Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.