By focusing on teaching businesses about the ROI they can achieve by preserving and investing in nature, you're expanding the scope of the impact you can have.

Agriculture is the #1 source of deforestation. By some estimates it accounts for 80% of the forests chopped down in the tropics.

I decided five years ago that I wanted to truly understand, for myself, what the state of the planet was, and when I dug into it, what I found was quite different than I'd imagined.

That, to me, is a kind of brilliant environmental ju-jitsu - using the energy of the market and the profit-motive to get businesses to invest in preserving and improving natural systems.

When you're managing a large number of people, you learn that incentives matter tremendously. You really want people to be rewarded for doing the right thing for the customers and the organization.

Often an idea has impact far larger than the person who originated it.

New technology lets you grow the resource pie, which is the only way you can get out between that pincer of rising consumption (as we end poverty) and environmental and natural resource depletion.

Often we need to use policy to level the playing field, or to be sure that a technology is managed in a responsible way.

Ozone and climate are global issues, and it's hard to find a way in which the benefits of shutting down carbon emissions are going to pay for themselves for any given power-plant, say.

I think the environmental movement is now so large and diverse that it's hard to talk of it as a single entity.

TNC was once limited by the resources it could directly marshal to buy land. But teaching people a new idea is incredibly more scalable.

The fact that we see something as evil may not necessarily make that thing evil. Evil cannot contest good

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.

Hi, I'm one of the knife-carrying hooligans you met last night in Pandemonium? I'm afraid I made a bad impression and was hoping you'd give me a chance to make it up to-" "SIMON!

Where confidence is wanting, the most beautiful flower in the garland of love is missing.

I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling.

I thought being on stage was an amazing feeling, but there is nothing that can top watching my wife bring our son into this world.

A brand is a storehouse of trust that matters more and more as choices multiply. People want to simplify their lives.

The simplest things in music are the ones that count. The simplest thing are, of course, also the most difficult to achieve and take years of work.

No-pocket jeans are only slightly less irritating than thong underwear.

I think Veblen had an interest in logic.