Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.
Given that, and assuming that we begin to adjust to issues like climate change and the greenhouse effect, Denver's location in the center of the country becomes a tremendous advantage.
Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.
Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.
One thing we do know about the threat of climate change is that the cost of adjustment only grows the longer it's left unaddressed.
I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol,' or when I was 10.
The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of changing their views to fit the facts, they try to change the facts to fit their views.
Clean air and a healthy climate benefit all of us, but it will take a diverse coalition to step up to the threat posed by unchecked climate change.
It never occurred to me that I couldn't change things that needed changing or couldn't have what I wanted if I worked hard enough and was good enough.
I didn't like the idea of changing myself for the industry. I felt to have my teeth straightened and bleached and to starve myself to change my body was not respecting who I was.
This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress.
It's absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual.
Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue.
In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'
What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.
If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play.
Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
Dealing with the fame and going from nothing and becoming something where everyone wants a piece of you, your life changes in a day.
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
I love the challenge of playing characters forced on life-changing emotional journeys. To work on a project with Billy Crudup and Sam Rockwell is just a dream come true.
