What a great time to be born! What a great time to be alive! Because this generation gets to essentially completely change the world.

If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down.

What we already know frames what we see, and what we see frames what we understand.

When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse.

A local company has more accountability.

We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the theory and the practice of free-market capitalism. It will provide business and public policy with a powerful new tool for economic development, profitability, and the promotion of the public good.

It costs the same to send a person to prison or to Harvard. The difference is the curriculum.