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.

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.

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.

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.

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

We need to be ready all the time for attacks of the enemy

Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable.

Business as usual is dead. Green growth is the answer to both our climate and economic problems

Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the solos they play, it's about the grooves they create.

If God's love is for anybody anywhere, it's for everybody everywhere.

I need to be looking at what's important in North Carolina, and you better believe that's what I will do.

I like to be able to get up and go and buy a pint of milk without bumping into 20 people I know.

I thought about that for a minute - about what I wanted.

Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.

I hate commas in the wrong places.