Whether you are buying a car or casting a ballot, choosing a job or planning a family, follow your moral compass. Don't let others define you. Don't let advertisers mold you; don't let zealots ensnare you; don't let conventional wisdom trap you....you are part of a much larger whole.

The sunshine that strikes American roads each year contains more energy than all the fossil fuels used by the entire world.

Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours.

These are not exhortations from overwrought extremists, but carefully phrased warnings from some of the world's finest scientists.

Asbestos, EMFs, and CFCs have given us a degree of humility. When yesterday's "triumph of modern chemistry" turns out instead to be today's deadly threat to the global environment, it is legitimate to ask what else we don't know.

We got everyone's attention, but we didn't solve any environmental problems.

Under communism, prices were not allowed to reflect economic reality. Under capitalism, prices don't reflect ecological reality. In the long run, the capitalist flaw -- if uncorrected -- may prove to be the more catastrophic.