The world is on fire, and I'm doing my best to help steer the firetruck.

Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.

When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.

I can't tell how moving it is to open my email and see a picture of 1,500 Buddhist monks and nuns in the Himalayan kingdom of Ladakh forming a human 350 against the backdrop of the melting glaciers. This is not their fault, and yet they're stepping up to be part of the solution.

[Political actions] has to happen on the local and state level; we have to convince our cities to join the growing number of more than 200 American cities who have signed on to the mayor's climate campaign.

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.

There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.