Relationships are the core message of ecology.

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

What we see today is a world movement represented by the World Social Forum, involving all sorts of interactions across cultures, not to create some new "ism," but to learn as we walk and to create more democratic forms of social organization that re-embed economic life in community.

I had no identity [when I was 27] - I was terrified that somebody would ask me what I was doing, and I would have no answer.

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

There is no formula. We all must become spirited inventors. There's no single answer - not even a single starting point. Even the 'teachers' ... don't offer us the answer. They do offer us approaches, ways of thinking, possibilities we can adapt, and hope that might generate in us wholly new ideas.

I don't rule anything out, and I couldn't underscore more the importance of what YES! is doing to show that there are people who are pushing the edge of hope, who are stepping into the unknown and taking risks, because that will then enable others to do the same.