Eat only until you're 4/5 full. An ancient Japanese injunction.

There are fundamental tensions between the biological reality of the planet and the economic reality. To some extent you can adapt the economy, create a new set of rules and incentives to send it down a better track, but finally people in the first world are going to have to consume a whole lot less.

Avoid food products that make health claims. at meals and eat them only at tables. And no, a desk is not a table.

The banquet is in the first bite.

I think using waste oils as fuel makes sense. We do waste a huge amount of vegetable oil in this country and using that as a fuel source strikes me as fine.

Rule No.37 The whiter the bread, the sooner you’ll be dead.

Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose.