On a regular basis, I conduct work in the Amazon, establishing trade for medicinal plants, and working with small communities to improve their economies and to help protect forest acreage.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.
We are working with the communities in building institutional relationships with local governments and businesses to create ways to get value from the Amazonian area in order to keep the forest as the forest. This makes sense for us from the perspective of climate change and of poverty.
I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.
I try to keep a positive intention and use whatever resources I have to benefit others. I try to create businesses that I think are not hurtful. I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.
I want to get more involved with the vineyards I have all over the world and to spend more time with the people who work in them.
I work with nature, although in completely new terms.
I'd really like to go down the Amazon in some capacity. I've spent time in the Congo, so I love the jungle.
I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.
I grew up working on farms. You'd do anything for money. You'd pick blueberries in the summertime for weeks; you'd cut down, like, spruce and fir trees for pulp.
I farm - there is something visceral about being attached to the land. I am a recording engineer. I do my own laundry most days, and I get on with the business of living.