I Almost Forgot What It's Like To

To Cite My Own Alma Mater, It's Shocking To Me That Yale University Can Teach What It Teaches At The Yale School Of Environmental Studies And Utterly Fail To Mirror Those Values In Any Way In Its Investment Practices.

I'd Say That, In Addition To Actually Taking My Brother And Sister And I Camping And Hiking And River Rafting All Our Lives And Introducing Us To The Power Of Natural Landscapes, His [my Father's] Biggest Impact On My Thinking Has Been To Always Argue That The "spiritual Case For Nature" Was Not Going To Outweigh The Needs Of 7 Billion People And To Insist That Law, Science And Economics Were The Critical Frameworks Through Which We Had To Defend The Value Of Nature.

I Started, With Three Friends, This Website Called Crowdrise That's Sort Of The Facebook For Personal Philanthropy, A Place Where Anybody Can Have A Permanent Microsite Of Their Own To Stage Creative Fundraising Projects For The Charities And Causes That They Care About. And We Did It With Serious Intent But Without Any Ambition.

I Don't Think You Should Sit Around And Wait For People To Give You An Opportunity To Express Yourself Or Do Your Work, Or Whatever. Actors Have To Be Producers And Writers Have To Be Producers.

I Almost Forgot What It's Like To Be Proud Of My Government.