Like all animals, human beings have always taken what they want from nature. But we are the rogue species. We are unique in our ability to use resources on a scale and at a speed that our fellow species can't.

I wish I could create an IMAX film that would make my work accessible to a broader audience.

I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living.

Sometimes you don't know why you're doing something. You're intuitively following, to see where it leads.

Somebody referred to what I do as subliminal activism, which I like.

I think the environmental movement has failed in that it's used the stick too much; it's used the apocalyptic tone too much; it hasn't sold the positive aspects of being environmentally concerned and trying to pull us out.

I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.