Our hubris needs to be downsized, thinking that profiteering on Earth, on whatever level - environmentally, economically, culturally - is unlimited and everybody should get as much as he wants or she...

Everyone else has some interest in economic growth and development, which often happens at the expense of the environment and community. We need the other side to join this to check and balance.

In the simplest terms, a fast-growing company can't keep growing at the same fast rate forever. It eventually has to slow down.

The great challenge of the 21st century is to provide good standards of living for 7 billion people without depleting the earth's resources or running up massive levels of public debt. To achieve...

People complain that cities don't have fresh, sustainable food, but it's just not true.

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.

We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward - looking, visionary environmental policy and...

We firmly believe the environmental issues cannot be addressed without extensive public participation, but people need to be informed before they can get involved.

I always try to say, 'If you want to help the environment, try to do just two things. One, use less of your car. Second, separate your garbage.'

If you had a really good battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at...

If you're trying to cut down the distance travelled from the farm to your plate, it makes sense to do the same for your pet. If we all shifted our bias towards sustainable pet food, we would be...

In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn.

What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It...

The death of the forest is the end of our life.

Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing needs it for life... The law needs to be clear to...

Manuel acquired as much land as he could afford and refused to sell it to anyone, even if he was not planting anything on it. "The land does not perish," he often said.

Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.

Of course, chaos can lead to failure and extinction. But so can order. Far more nations, people, and ideas die of atrophy than die from revolution. Both order and chaos are necessary ingredients for...

Save Our Planet Recycle Knowledge

Much of the oxygen we breathe comes from plants that died long ago. We can give thanks to these ancestors of our present - pay foliage, but we can't give back to them. We can, however, give forward....

The foods that are nearby are best for human beings, and things that he has to struggle to obtain turn out to be the least beneficial of all.

Without question, the balance of power on the planet today lies in the hands of business. Corporations rival governments in wealth, influence, and power. Indeed, business all too often pulls the...

Let us seek 'joy' instead of honest food and clean air and a healthier future on a habitable planet! As if happiness alone is enough to protect us from the consequences of profit - madness.

What people discard could make a nation

Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago. The chemical energy within them is a kind of stored sunlight originally...

America's food system is broken.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

A few years ago, at a conference on organic agriculture in California, a corporate organic grower suggested to a small farmer struggling to survive in the competitive world of industrial organic that...

Many say they 'love nature'. That means they are not opposed to indulging in the pleasures it offers from time to time. They go out and delight in the beauty of the Earth, trampling fields and...

Yeah, hey you know carbon sinks are so crucial, scrubbing CO2 out of the air may eventually turn out to be our only option, so maybe we should reverse those two clauses. Make carbon sinks come first...