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Conversations that go deep on the environment, the climate crisis, and the solutions
Conversations that go deep on the environment, the climate crisis, and the solutions
“At the end of the day, all climate action is about stepping into the better future that is right within our reach. It is a major transformation of how we’ll have to think about our funding streams, our priorities, and, most of all, who we want to be included in making decisions about our future. Because ultimately climate justice is racial and economic justice. ”
“I want to reiterate that this is a democracy story. This is a power grab story. This is what happens when we purposefully take away people’s voices at the table. And that’s why this one story isn’t just about this crazy thing that happened in Flint, but it’s about efforts that are happening right now, all over the place to corrode democracy and to take away people’s power and voice.”
“You need to live sustainably in your own head, and I think part of that comes through finding whatever modality it is that keeps you feeling healthy, but also keeps you growing.”
“I didn’t invent anything here. I’m a moment of this thousands of years of history of people farming shellfish and seaweeds. I think what I did was take it and make it simple, synthesize it, affordable, and really just try to figure what are all the things we can grow in a small area. And now there are just so many people, so many hands on deck innovating in this sector. I think it makes it really exciting, and the chances of success just go way up.”
“Biophilic means ‘love of life.’ Bringing that to design is really about reawakening the relationship that people and nature have in buildings, where we tend to be very cut off from the outside world and from nature. It’s a movement really to reengage people and nature in our built environment and in urban settings especially, and to do that literally in terms of opening up buildings to the outside but also bringing the outside in to our buildings as well.”
“I think we need each other to remind ourselves of the stakes and encourage us to remember that, in a way, it doesn’t matter what the odds are, that the good life lies at least in part in doing the best that we can.”
“The power of the Institute for Sustainable Communities is in ensuring that equity and justice and the outcomes that benefit people are embedded in climate change solutions.”
“I like to say that leveling the playing field for communities was where I’ve wanted to be. And, happily, I’ve been on the forefront of working for environmental justice ever since. It’s hard work, but the ability to be dedicated to it and concentrating on it and working with communities around the country and around the world is gratifying and very rewarding.”
"The end of externalities is now the right model. That is the paradigm shift. The real goal needs to be moving towards a zero harm reality. And frankly, it needs to be that we have an expectation on each of us as humans on the planet, that there is a right to a safe and protected world and access to renewable resources, which others are similarly obligated to maintain the renewal of. I do think that is starting to emerge broadly as a theme, and I would argue that this is not just something environmentalists and the environmental scholarly world is thinking about, but I think the business world gets it now too."
“Solving the climate crisis requires expanding individual imagination to see yourself as a brother and sister to all other human beings to cultivate solidarity.”
"When you feel like you're part of nature, you feel agency in the future"
