Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.

Science is showing us that we are even more connected to each other than we ever realized.

I never like to use those terms [like pessimistic].

[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.

Every time you take a step and walk with your fear, you'll never know the impact. But you can be certain somebody's watching, and that courage is contagious.

I learned this [ that fear doesn't have to stop me] when my world came apart. I was living a life-long dream of a family life combined with an organization to promote living democracy - all on a gorgeous 45-acre compound in rural Vermont. I'd spent a decade building my dream, and then it started to crumble, piece by piece - my marriage, my organization, my confidence.

What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing each other, wiping out other species, spoiling our nest. Yet on every continent a revolution in human dignity is emerging. It is re-knitting community and our ties to the earth. So we do have a choice. We can choose death; or we can choose life.