The environment is not just around you, it's passing through you.

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

Organic Oreos are not a health food. When Coca-Cola begins selling organic Coke, as it surely will, the company will have struck a blow for the environment perhaps, but not for our health. Most consumers automatically assume that the word "organic" is synomymous with health, but it makes no difference to your insulin metabolism if the high-fructose corn syrup in your soda is organic.

Don't get your fuel from the same place your car does

We used to eat economically. One of the things that happened is that we lost the cultural skills that used to allow people to eat well cheaply. For example making three or four meals from a chicken, rather than buying chicken breasts.

Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community.

My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.