What we see today is a world movement represented by the World Social Forum, involving all sorts of interactions across cultures, not to create some new "ism," but to learn as we walk and to create more democratic forms of social organization that re-embed economic life in community.

Relationships are the core message of ecology.

What has dawned on me is that focusing on the "finite planet" frame sends a message that we have gone as far as Nature can take us and therefore we need to give power to forces outside Nature.

Many families participate in the Community Supported Agriculture movement, which allows a family to buy shares in a farmer's produce so that they know where their food is coming from, and they can take their families out and see the farm and meet the farmer. That movement has helped create a new culture around food.

Nature is with us if we can learn how to align with it and not break the basic laws that generate life.

That's what happened when my own life crumbled. The people who came into my life bolstered me to take more risks, to be even more true to myself.

[O]ur greatest contributions to the cause of freedom and development overseas is not what we do over there, but what we do right here at home.