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.

Engagement is the good life. What could be more exciting than getting involved in something that you care about and joining with others and seeing something change? What could be more thrilling?

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.

Old models of farming with chemicals and credit mostly favored privileged men.

I had the realization that hunger is not caused by scarcity of food, it is caused by the production system and an absence of democracy throughout the world.

Food has always been at the center of community bonding, of family life, and simple pleasure, but it is becoming more and more an obsession, a source of pain.

Nature has an incredible capacity for regeneration and growth, but we can't experience it if we stay fearful and focused on lack.