To be a modern person in 2012, you are often required to have some electronics in your life. And I do. I try to put that phone down, put the computer away, and get out there and hike in the woods; feel it in my feet, feel it in my hands; get out in the garden and feel the soil under my fingers, my fingertips and my fingernails. I try to be involved in nature in a very tactile way. I think that's important.

You can't just do one of the things, because it won't be enough to combat the climate change that we're already starting to experience. It will only get worse.

Los Angeles is a city known as much for its sun as for its stars and its dirty air.

One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.

If you're going to drive a Hummer and buy carbon offsets, that's like getting drunk every night and getting into an AA meeting, throwing money in the basket, and leaving.

There are many different ways now to experience nature. Get out there and hike.

What we often fail to recognize is how efficient a vegan diet is. Less land, less water, more food for our spiraling population.