Ian Somerhalder
People have amazing ideas. The main problem - I won't call it a problem, let's call it a roadblock - is if you use the analogy of a convoy of vehicles going to help a distress situation: they have all the resources needed (food, medicine, everything they need), and as the convoy is traveling, there's a rockslide. You can't get through the road. What good does any of that stuff do when you can't get it to where it needs to go?Collection: Ideas
What I've started to realize is that social media is not just technology - it's become its own entity, full of energy waves. These energy waves could be a Tweet about something you are furious about, like the Keystone Pipeline, or a piece of legislation. Instantly, energy surrounds and adds traction, influence, making it come aliveCollection: Technology
I'm starting to realize there's no stopping us now. An idea, a feeling, a movement can't just be squashed. It's impossible now.Collection: Ideas
I love the media, I live with the media.Collection: Media
There are so many ways to help, by either sharing your skills or expertise, joining our board of directors or advisory boards, and donating. Regardless of what or how you share with ISF, we recognize that we don't have all the answers, and that solutions lie not in commonality but in diversity. Welcoming a broad range of thinkers, creators, and doers is what makes this organization thrive.Collection: Lying
So many people are working in industries that don't inspire them, to pay the bills and survive. In an ideal world, everyone would get paid to work within their passion and expand in their talents. If you have a skill, a passion, and a love for creating change, the best way to support us is to co-create with us.Collection: Passion
I learned from my past, and I now employ those lessons going forward, looking to the future - don't you think it's about time our government did, too?Collection: Past
We are all dropped into our lives on this planet with a limited amount of time and cosmic understanding, yet we know one thing for certain: we wish to live. We share this yearning for life and love with all the beings that fly, grow, slither or swim amongst us.Collection: Life And Love
I am seeing a resurgence of entertainment that not only entertains, but inspires, evokes, and moves. I am seeing strength in the ability of artistic expression to change our future.Collection: Moving
Whether it's physically having a visual of what you want to accomplish in front of you, like a running list or a vision board, or mentally visualizing and taking time to meditate, having a vision of what you are running for keeps you from running for the sake of running.Collection: Running
The sanctuary would be the epicenter for the foundation. We'll have think tanks there. It's going to be a really, really amazing place. As an educational home base, we will also focus on the development of sustainable agriculture initiative. It's a huge project but one I am exceptionally passionate about.Collection: Educational
The bureaucracies that are in place now, they're not going to change, they're not going to stop.Collection: Bureaucracy
Let's reuse whatever we have now, stop making more of it, take what we gather, and make - whether it's car parts, computer cases, anything that we can use.Collection: Car
If we recognize the interconnectedness of the changes our planet needs, we become true solutionaries and our united power is unparalleled.Collection: Needs
Oil is dead, on its way to extinction.Collection: Oil
We're destroying our water supplies like you can't even imagine.Collection: Water
Policymakers are not the change makers. Because policymakers can't make policy unless we allow them.Collection: Makers
I've got a lot of letters from prison. Lost was a big prison show. But it's really crazy when you get the letter that says, 'So, I'm getting out in three months, I've only been in for 17 years and I'd really like to meet you.'Collection: Crazy
The word love carries the same vibration in any language. You probably know this guy, you probably had dinner with him yesterday. The Japanese water crystal guy?Collection: Yesterday
The youth have a prodigious talent for inventing progressive ideas and alternative courses of action that elude the jaded, in-the-box minds of worn-down adults.Collection: Ideas
Growing up in rural Louisiana, the ecosystem around our home wove harmoniously into our family and into our daily life. Every life lesson that trickled its way into my being came from a mutually respectful relationship between the environment and my family.Collection: Growing Up
It's the diversity of intelligence, the diversity of creativity, that is so very much necessary to creating whole solutions.Collection: Creativity
Whether that expansion is towards the beings around you or flora, fauna, and creatures. Love has so many unique yet consistent forms. People like Branson - he's an idea guru. Guys like Allan Savory - he's like Father Earth. Allan has literally discovered how to stop desertification and make Africa come alive with plant life. In each of its forms, love has an infinite scope of potential expansion, all of which I see leading to growth.Collection: Father
Ideas need collective thought.Collection: Ideas
I see massive potential for entertainment to create wide sweeping change.Collection: Entertainment
It's not who you know, it's who you don't know.Collection: Who You Know
Very little makes me feel vulnerable these days. I hit my absolute apex of vulnerability when I returned to my home state of Louisiana, during the Gulf oil spill disaster, and witnessed mass devastation to every demonstration of life surrounding me - from grass, trees, bayous, insects, to animals and people - we all felt demolished.Collection: Home
If you want change, it has to be generational.Collection: Want
If you love someone when you're 20 and you carry that love with you until you're 90, it's not going to be the same dynamic.Collection: Love You
Thirty years ago, if you wanted to start a campaign against or for something, you had to print flyers, you had to make a million phone calls. Remember presidential campaigns and stuff? It was a very laborious thing. Now we can literally talk to each other in a nanosecond.Collection: Phones
It's really cool to see the transformation of reading something on a page and it coming to life.Collection: Reading
The symphonic sounds of nature awaken every cell in my body and, in that moment, without a doubt, I am truly alive.Collection: Cells
The will to live that possesses us to create medicine, to become firefighters or teachers, is the same will to live that is woven into all living beings.Collection: Teacher
I don't need to make money destroying my environment. Why don't I just love it and figure out a way to be more sustainable?Collection: Needs
It's one of those things that hits you when you're not even looking for it. It's a moment when you find those words surging through your mind - "I feel so alive right now." There's varying degrees of it. Acting definitely makes me feel so remarkably alive. Sitting on a beach or walking through nature makes me come alive always.Collection: Beach
There is no differentiation between all living things: trees, river, animals, and humans. We are all one interdependent organism, so our focus may seem broad but each element interacts with the other. We have so many phenomenal eyes, skills, and hands on deck. It's mind-blowingly exciting.Collection: Eye
In each of its forms, love has an infinite scope of potential expansion, all of which I see leading to growth.Collection: Growth
What is it that we need to do to explain to the public exactly is what is happening? We are destroying our precious water resources at this alarming rate, and again, why? When we have so many viable alternatives? "Oh,alternative power is too expensive, what about the jobs" - this is dinosaur thinking.Collection: Jobs
Acting definitely makes me feel so remarkably alive.Collection: Acting
If we were to focus our attention on one particular problem and neglect the others, we would fail to see the true scope of our current global issues. The changes made in that form of thinking are limited and self-contained.Collection: Thinking
Nina Dobrev makes my job easy, its hard not to melt when she looks at you with those doe eyes.Collection: Jobs
We need to do as much as we can from every direction or we will surpass that two-degree climate increase. Actually, the science is showing we are already en route to surpassing two degrees.Collection: Two
Why are we deforesting for pulp and paper when we have a logical and efficient solution in plants like kenaf or bamboo? It doesn't make sense to me at all.Collection: Paper
If we take our youth seriously, provide tools to strengthen their natural prowess, and empower them to make the changes they want to see in the world, then this planet and her creatures have the chance to heal and flourish.Collection: Empowering
Oil is dead, on its way to extinction. As a group of citizens we must speak up and act towards ending fracking. Let your government know you will not tolerate a technology that not only poisons your family but our creature family at large; let them know you want sustainable power and all the jobs that will come with that new growth.Collection: Jobs
Our Animal Sanctuary initiative has many layers. We are aiming to create a place where abandoned and bullied creatures come together with bullied youth. We feel that bullies have leadership abilities, albeit these abilities are totally skewed and misdirected.Collection: Animal
More than ever, it's very apparent that we are strapped for natural resources. We configure and reconfigure to try and find a way to maintain natural assets, when, ultimately, we are overlooking the most abundant, dynamic, and powerful resource we have available to us - our youth.Collection: Powerful
Providing clean, efficient solar/electric generators to industries such as oil companies, spanning from film and event production, construction, disaster relief, agriculture, forestry, and nonprofit organizations. We're literally helping green oil companies, helping them find ways to pollute less while creating jobs. When I look at the breadth of positive impact these technologies can have, I truly get excited. Imagine a generator where ZERO fuel is used!Collection: Zero
If you look at all different facets, where does it come from? Education. It comes from empowerment of young people. Because the bureaucracies that are in place now, they're not going to change, they're not going to stop.Collection: People