The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too.

I think the market is always going to be around. The goal is not to say, let's get rid of the market, because the market does render a huge number of services, and I don't want to have a fight about the price of something every time I buy a book or a bottle of water.

It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.

Whats immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.

If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.

I was recently looking at what they can actually do to reduce consumption of petrol. It would be quite possible to build automobiles out of carbon fibre that would be just as strong, weigh 10 times less and consume 10 times less petrol.