You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.
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.
Climate change is the single biggest thing that humans have ever done on this planet. The one thing that needs to be bigger is our movement to stop it.
The movers and shakers on our planet, aren't the billionaires and generals, they are the incredible numbers of people around the world filled with love for neighbor and for the earth who are resisting, remaking, restoring, renewing and revitalising.
Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality.
There are many places where we need to fight important battles to make sure that customers have access to solar.
The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.
One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material moderation, it can be practiced in cities and suburbs, townhouses and condominiums. It requires neither a log cabin nor a hairshirt but a deliberate ordering of priorities so as to distinguish between the necessary and superfluous, useful and wasteful, beautiful and vulgar.
Learn how to let go and say a good good-bye.
When faced with adverse circumstances, if you can do something, do it and there is not need to worry. If you can't do anything, then there is no point to worry. So in either case, worrying is an added suffering. But this does not mean of course that we should not be unhappy about injustice, abuse and other kinds of behavior that brings suffering upon others.