The good life for me always meant connecting with those big, important issues that grown-ups get so excited about.

How we frame the world - how we talk about it and define it - affects how we see things and how we live.

The spirit that I am advocating is reframing how we view the world, and shifting from the negativity of lack and "not enough" to the positive frame of aligning with Nature.

in a world where only a minor portion of the land is really well suited to agriculture, man is using much of the best land with dubious efficiency.

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

Hope is not wishful thinking. It's not a temperament we're born with. It is a stance toward life that we can choose...not not. The real question for me, though, is whether m hope is effective, whether it produces or is just where I hide to ease my own pain.

Our heavily meat-centered culture is at the very heart of our waste of the earth's productivity.