Resource efficiency is the wrong metric. We should use nature as the measure, using nature's wisdom as a template for our economic systems.

The computer is a mechanism for acceleration: it accelerates economic activity, and this is eating up the world. It's eating up resources, it's processing, it's manufacturing, it's distributing, it's consuming. That's what the computer's real work does, and it does that 24/7, 365 days a year, non-stop, just to satisfy our own narrow needs.

I don't have a cell phone because I know how horrible it is. Using your cell phone is like putting your head in a microwave every day.

These parks are our life's work, not the clothing chains we created, selling people clothes they don't need.

National parks are the best expression of social equity that there is. It's like paying our rent for living on the planet.

What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity.