Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture.'

Our goal is a delightfully diverse, safe, healthy, and just world, with clean air, water, soil and power – economically, equitably, ecologically and elegantly enjoyed.

If we think about things having multiple lives, cradle to cradle, we could design things that can go back to either nature or back to industry forever.

It would be nice if all that exuberance and abundance was connected to a deep ethos of planetary responsibility.

The surest way to heal an eco-system is to connect it to more of itself.

The problem carbon is that everyone thinks we have an energy problem, we don't. We have plenty of energy. We have a carbon problem. Carbon is a material, so we have a material problem, not an energy problem.

Sustainability takes forever. And that's the point.