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I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.

Environmental protection Does not happen in a vacuum. You can not separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities.

Like I said, I am more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.

The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We do not tend to support big agencies.

I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes.

More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries.

There is so many issues tied to the meat industry. I mean, social, environmental, humanitarian - all of them. I know that when I am eating that I am not hurting the planet, I am not hurting other people on this planet, I am not hurting animals... and I am not hurting nature.

We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.

We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was the fact that it was a sustained approach. We did something new every year.

If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.

A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs.

Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state.

Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will lose the treasure of California's open space and environmental beauty.

I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I did not do anything academically around the arts.

And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it is not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It is really just common sense.

On the environmental front there is concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.

But, as environment minister, I am very interested in a thriving German automobile industry, because I can only pay for the rising costs of environmental protection at home and abroad if there are people in Germany with jobs and who pay taxes.

Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.

So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.

I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach.