Carbon tax has the advantage of basically being able to subsidize one set of activities that you want with another set of activities that you don't want. It's like a cigarette tax.

Style is time’s fool. Form is time’s student

This is pretty much the infrastructural stuff that comes along with large quantities of energy. Whichever technology we are looking at has serious hazardous issues.

There should always be in sight the draw — a kind of a beacon that draws you on through the labyrinth.

The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time.

Likewise, with solar, especially here in California, we're discovering that the 80 solar farm schemes that are going forward want to basically bulldoze 1,000 sq. mi. of southern California desert. Well, as an environmentalist, we would rather that didn't happen.

Information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time.