What gets projects done for me is not inspiration. It's curiosity and rigor.
It's remarkably easy to dig up enormous amounts of information about individuals, without their consent.
Nobody's going to fix the world for us, but working together, making use of technological innovations and human communities alike, we might just be able to fix it ourselves.
Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.
Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes.
By ignoring tomorrow, we undermine today.
Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water on Earth is salt water, and the remaining freshwater supplies are split between agricultural use and human use - as well as maintaining the existing natural environment.
Jesus didn't mean this as a sweeping command for everyone who has a lot of money. Jesus meant this for any of us who wallow in whatever abundance we have. I imagine Jesus looked straight into this young man's soul and said, 'I want you to give up the one thing you crave more than me. Then come, follow me. '
Ski racing is not about how much you weigh. If weight was the key, everybody would be sucking down food.
Never have a club in your bag that you're afraid to hit.
What do you really want? Sit down and write it out on a piece of paper. Write it in the present tense.