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Vegetable box schemes, local greengrocers, farmers' markets and organic stores are a great place to source package-free foods.
The flavour of something fresh out of the ground is 10 times better than something that's been flown halfway across the world.
Polite conservationists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.
Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.
The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.
I'm sort of half-Chilean at this point anyway, half-Argentine. This is where I have been living and working for a long time now.
Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.
When you have solar panels, your electricity gets there for free, no one's figured out how to meter the sun yet. And that's good.
We'll never get there if we let the climate crisis bloom unchecked, so for the moment the key is to organize, organize, organize!
Sustainability, ensuring the future of life on Earth, is an infinite game, the endless expression of generosity on behalf of all.
What stands between heaven and earth is merely the acceptance of ourselves as apart of this world and our placement of ourselves.
The idea that China and India will just abandon climate action is not true, because they're doing it for more reasons than we are.
I believe that human overpopulation is the fundamental problem on Earth Today" and, "We humans have become a disease, the Humanpox
Open shelving may be fashionable, but a closed cabinet door is the best way to stop grease and dust collecting in the first place.
Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside.
It's not a big deal for me to be leader of the Green Party. It is a big deal for me to represent the voters of Saanich-Gulf Islands.
There's a lot I'd like to be able to talk about with relation to Stephen Harper, particularly why is he afraid to debate in English?
I think the words 'vote strategically' translates in the human brain to: 'Oh I can't vote for what I want.' And that's discouraging.
To me, a wilderness is where the flow of wildness is essentially uninterrupted by technology; without wilderness the world is a cage.
What a great time to be born! What a great time to be alive! Because this generation gets to essentially completely change the world.
I don't have a cell phone because I know how horrible it is. Using your cell phone is like putting your head in a microwave every day.
The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the century of the renewables.
There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.
In the last two years 24 countries have set new all-time temperature records. We've seen flooding on an epic scale in every continent .
Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.
ncrementalism is out, and doing deals with people just for power, when our children's futures at stake is not something I will ever do.
It now appears that the fracturing of that ice is happening much more quickly than people previously thought, apparently at a slow melt.
The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy.
When you pollute a river, it's a supreme injustice to those who are downstream and those who live in the river who are not human beings.
If you're not willing to take the political heat, then you shouldn't get into the game of land conservation, especially on a large scale.
The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.
The thoughts of great men are the common heritage of humanity and let our countrymen receive inspiration and guidance from these thoughts.
A world where one tenth of the population gets to be extremely wealthy, and six tenths very poor, is not, in the long run, a stable place.
we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness.
For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.
Once we establish an architectural style in each park, we stick with it religiously and comprehensively so that it comes out as a gestalt.
I'm fair-minded, maybe. Maybe I bend over backward to give people too much benefit of the doubt. And I'll give credit where credit is due.
I love judging food by its smell and feel and taste. The healthiest tomato isn't always the perfect one that's been covered in pesticides.
While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.
Resource efficiency is the wrong metric. We should use nature as the measure, using nature's wisdom as a template for our economic systems.
For many of us, Christmas lunch is the most special meal of the year - and I certainly want nothing but the very best for this celebration.
In 50 years, no one will care about the fiscal cliff or the Euro crisis. They'll just ask, "So the Arctic melted, and then what did you do?"
It's off the charts - and if you don't believe the scientists, ask the insurance industry, the people we pay to analyze risk in our society.
I think that it is impossible to think of a threat to social justice greater than what we are doing to the earth's atmosphere at the moment.
I'm a firm believer that if we could restore real parliamentary democracy, the best way to do that would be to get rid of political parties.
Pets inspire many different types of behaviour in their owners, mostly ranging from adoration to ridiculous obsessiveness, in my experience.
I'm not interested in a balance of power in order to have power for the Green party. What I'm interested in is the balance of responsibility.
Those of us in the west have figured out a lot of ways to damage the lives of poor people in this country and around the world over the years.
I think fracking for gas will reduce the incentive to turn to renewables, and I think it will do a lot of other damage across the countryside.
If the Holy Spirit is capable of the heavy lifting required to get Pat Robertson to change his mind, then that strikes me as a very good sign.