We are altering the most basic forces of the planet's surface - the content of the sunlight, the temperature and aridity - and that brings out the most powerful questions about who is in charge. If you wanted to give a name to this theological problem, I think you could say that we are engaged in decreation.

In certain ways, I think the work in the Evangelical community has been the most interesting and the most promising. Partly because Evangelical congregations may be harder to convince about issues but, on the other hand, are more likely to do something about it.

For the first time in 150 years, the USDA reported there were more farms in America, not fewer. That has to make you happy.

We can no longer imagine that we are part of something larger than ourselves - that is what all this boils down to.

Solar power seems to be truly bipartisan in its appeal.

We'll look for almost any reason not to change our attitudes; the inertia of the established order is powerful. If we can think of a plausible, or even implausible, reason to discount environmental warnings, we will.

From some tiny portion of the wealth the west accumulated in a hundred years of filling the atmosphere with carbon.