Simply paying attention allows us to build an emotional connection. Lacking attention, empathy hasn't a chance.

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.

Shipping by sea produces 1/60 the emissions of shipping by air and about 1/5 that of trucking.

Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival.

Buying phosphate-free soap allows you to say, 'My detergent doesn't have the harsh chemicals others do.' The question is, how are you washing with it? The very worst thing for the Earth about detergent is that we heat water to use it.

Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.

The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.