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.

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.

With organic approaches, women - who have been gardeners for millennia and mothers forever - can rise because of their intimate knowledge of nature.

Relationships are the core message of ecology.

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

If we start with "limits" and a premise of scarcity and fear, it makes us fearful of each other, and that makes us vulnerable to anti-democratic systems.

We didn't evolve to be passive victims or shoppers.