A life-long mission has been to counter the notion that political engagement is the spinach we must eat in order to have the dessert of freedom.

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

Because we are living in a culture increasingly dominated by fear where many feel blocked.

I had left graduate school, determined that I wasn't going to do anything else to "save the world" until I understood how I could get at the underlying causes of deepening suffering. To do that, I had to start by admitting that I didn't know.

If we cannot know what's possible, then we are free to do that which is pulling our hearts and that which is life serving.

I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-woo l possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything's connected and change is the only constant.

Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action.