There are really only two stories the coal industry tells: "Coal keeps the lights on, and by implication, you'll live in medieval, soul-shattering darkness if you don't let us do whatever the hell we want with the landscape and drinking water you public health, because there's no alternative."

When Wal-Mart brings water down to the Katrina victims, it's not doing that to be nice; it's doing it to make larger profits and to increase the value of its shares. If its actions are not accomplishing those objectives, the shareholders can sue the executives, and sue them successfully, because it is illegal for them to act on behalf of any other reason than increasing the value of their shares. There is nothing wrong with that. That is the way that they were created and the way we want them to function to increase prosperity in the market.

I think we as Americans know there's a much better alternative than the 17th century practice of burning rocks to power our economy.

We need election reform because our elections are being stolen. And these huge powerful voting machine vending companies have privatized the election process in our country.

The most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.

The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.

Investigative journalism has been relegated to a very, very tiny space in America. We don't really have much investigative journalism left. And the last refuge for it is documentary filmmaking.