Environmentali sm is really about seeing our place in world in a way that humans have always known up until very recently - that we are part of nature-utterly dependent on the natural world for our well being and survival.

Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water supplies and fewer environmental impacts overall.

I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.

On December 7, 1941, an event took place that had nothing to do with me or my family and yet which had devastating consequences for all of us - Japan bombed Pearl Harbour in a surprise attack. With that event began one of the shoddiest chapters in the tortuous history of democracy in North America.

Our choices at all levels-individual, community, corporate and government-affect nature. And they affect us.

Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die.

Debating the best way to do something we shouldn't be doing in the first place is a sure way to end up in the wrong place.