1. In your book, A Conservationist Manifesto, you focus primarily on changes for a more sustainable life occurring on the individual/personal level. How do you feel about changes that happen in a more top-down manner? Can the type of change we need be accomplished at a government level? Or would those actions be nullified in the case of an unchanging attitudes on the individual level?
2. Do you feel that an etymological approach to complex problems (such as the one you use in the chapter "A Few Earthy Words") is always helpful? Is there ever a risk that historical definitions do more to complicate than simplify a situation?
3. For the busy-scheduled person who "doesn't have time" to start a garden or knit a sweater, is lack of time an acceptable argument for not practicing some of the tactics you advocate in your book? To what extent should we make time for sustainable practices?
4. As a appreciator of words, how do you feel about products being labeled as 'green'?
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