We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.

If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves.

In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school.

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.