Climate action

"The fact that your neighbor can look at your solar panels and ask you questions has more impact than just listening to experts on TV."

"There’s a psychological phenomenon called ‘reactance,’ that means when people believe that their choices are being limited or they’re going to have to engage in costly behaviors, they’re likely to push back against that and the message can backfire."

"In an integrated system, all of the products of an interaction can cycle locally. Food scraps from the table can feed the chickens. Chicken waste can feed the worms. Worms can feed the chickens. Worm castings can provide the nutrients for vegetables. Vegetable trimmings can feed the chickens. The chickens, eggs and vegetables can feed the people producing the table scraps."

"People always use palm oil, it’s everywhere, but because of shareholder advocacy and proxy voting, investors were able to make sure there was less deforestation in Southeast Asia."

"Voting is the single most important action Americans can take to address climate change...."

"Climate messages are most impactful when they resonate with and affirm a person’s underlying values and identities."

"In any given neighborhood, there is a huge collection of things that are owned by individuals but could become shared resources. In a single community of fifty homes, there might be close to fifty complete sets of home tools, car seats for newborns and toddlers, toys for every stage of child development, cookbooks, plumbing snakes, clothing of every size and color, furniture, old monitors, camping gear, and so on."

"Just knowing what’s right, or healthy, or environmentally friendly isn’t really a sufficient model for changing behaviors."

"It’s important to both educate and empower children. Educate them, because they need to know what’s going on. This is their world and they need to be prepared for it."

"There’s a lot of knowledge built up in experience, and there’s a lot of energy that’s stored in young people....When you put those two together, you have … an excellent recipe for potential success"

"Freed from the ‘tyranny of the two-by-four and four-by-eight,’...we can build a house out of anything."

"Most people are engaged in building up their community as a defense."