Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.

Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.

To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.

I think there are probably a handful of real character actors in this business. The rest of us are recycling. So now I'm Sam Malone the editor. I'm Sam Malone the billionaire.

Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject.

You reach a certain age, and you realize, 'Wow: there are younger people doing this better than I can, and don't leave me out - I don't want to be left behind. I want to do it, too. Where are you going? I want to be part of it.'

I was at our beautiful home in Martha's Vineyard, near Boston, sitting on the porch looking at the ocean when I got a phone called and was asked, 'Would I like to do 'CSI'?' A week later, I'm at a coroner's office in Las Vegas, participating in a quadruple autopsy.

When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.

We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.

We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil.

The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.