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There are many places where we need to fight important battles to make sure that customers have access to solar.
Certainly, packets of sea ice, in say the Arctic, which have failed to fully reform in the last couple of years.
We just see a sort of cascading amount of data of the damage that is being done by those increased temperatures.
And of course the Green Party wants to remove carcinogens from our food, our cosmetics, our backyard pesticides.
I really think a minority Parliament delivers better democracy in Canada when parties are prepared to cooperate.
You cannot seriously address the destruction of wilderness without addressing the society that is destroying it.
If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down.
The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.
Global food insecurity is increasing...the slim excess of growth in food production over population is narrowing.
Farmers...can no longer keep up with rising demand; thus the outlook is for chronic scarcities and rising prices.
There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum.
We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor by giving each other motorized tie racks.
We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.
Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break.
We can no longer imagine that we are part of something larger than ourselves - that is what all this boils down to.
From some tiny portion of the wealth the west accumulated in a hundred years of filling the atmosphere with carbon.
Mother's milk would be banned by the food safety laws of industrialized nations if it were sold as a packaged good.
If you really want to help make a difference while getting a true travel experience, consider a community-run trip.
If one wanted to stigmaitise, that's how one would do it - lots and lots of people saying "we're severing our ties".
A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.
Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet.
We need the sea. We need a place to stand and touch and listen - to feel the pusle of the world as the surf rolls in.
I've always been opposed to population control. In climate terms, population is not the biggest problem going forward.
Spend 70% of your spare time doing things close to home and the other 30% doing work at the global and national level.
The greatest level of hostility and venom, really, is between parties closest to each other on the political spectrum.
I don't love being Leader of the Green Party. It is not really something I'd recommend to a good friend. It's not fun.
The foundation is being laid for the emergence of both wind and solar cells as cornerstones of the new energy economy.
Peace, non-violence, human rights and the environment - if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are
The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse.
Consuming less is the fastest way to eco-fashion redemption - particularly if your preference is for leather, not hemp.
Consuming less means throwing away less, while reusing things actually helps to save the planet as well as the pennies.
When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.
Overpopulation is perhaps the biggest problem facing us, and immigration is part of that problem. It has to be addressed.
The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.
At least I sure hope it will - and I see good signs all the time, especially in things like the rise of local agriculture.
National parks are the best expression of social equity that there is. It's like paying our rent for living on the planet.
I know that when I was on my hunger strike, I reacted very negatively to people telling me what I should and shouldn't do.
Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality.
For the first time in 150 years, the USDA reported there were more farms in America, not fewer. That has to make you happy.
The movement across Canada to fight toxic chemicals is a women's movement. It's a concern about health; it's very intimate.
One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for all generations to come
This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Civilization needs a new operating system.
A long, hot bath is a real treat. But from a 'green' point of view, that's probably what it should be: an occasional treat.
We still need conservationists who will attempt the impossible, achieving it because they aren't aware how impossible it is.
Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.
There's big granite walls up toward the Argentine border, but the weather's serious, and a lot of the rock is mossy and wet.
We cannot ever accept a government that thinks they can get away with tiny targets on climate which they then don't achieve.
We have an economy that tells us that it is cheaper to destroy Earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and sustain it.
The most blatant examples are increased power and frequency in hurricanes and the increased depth and frequency of heat waves.
In today's integrated world economy, ... eradicating poverty may contribute as much to U.S. security as eradicating terrorism.