There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs plankton 40 to 1.

Pearl Harbor was the defining event in my life. It shaped who I am, and all of my hang-ups and my drives, I think, stem from that.

Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.

The environment is so fundamental to our continued existence that it must transcend politics and become a central value of all members of society.

There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs plankton 40 to 1.

Our identity includes our natural world, how we move through it, how we interact with it and how it sustains us.

Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them.