I did a filmstrip on pollution in the Davison area as my Eagle Scout project and showed it around town. Businesses who were the polluters were mad at me.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I was 7 years old, I announced that I was going to write a book about pollution. I didn't get around to it until I was 29, but I always recognized that pollution was a theft. That it was a way of stealing something from the public - the common earth.
The job of uncovering the global food waste scandal started for me when I was 15 years old. I bought some pigs. I was living in Sussex. And I started to feed them in the most traditional and environmentally friendly way. I went to my school kitchen, and I said, 'Give me the scraps that my school friends have turned their noses up at.'
What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.
I see a future where getting to work or to school or to the store does not have to cause pollution.
There is a growing recognition of the importance of really bringing pollution under control.
I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done.
I rant and rave about noise pollution.