We have climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from human power and transportation infrastructure. At the same time, we have 2 billion people who live in energy poverty.

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.

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.

My strength is my power of love, my weakness is my kindness for those who suffers.

No one can understand your pain until they experience it. Stop trying to explain.

It is when I struggle that I strengthen. It is when challenged to my core that I learn the depth of who I am.

The last madness I’ll probably persist in is to believe myself a poet: it will be up to the critics to cure me.

All glory comes from daring to begin.

Everything is connected to everything else.

There's part of me that is a strict materialist.

I loved feeling special. I hated feeling special.

As long as we give room for domination and the dominators, there will be worries and worried people. Poverty and pestilence will live eternally in the country.

But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe.