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I will never ever forget
the feeling I felt as I saw the sea

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and set foot on the boat
for the first time.

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And to that four-year-old kid,

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it was the greatest sense of freedom
that I could ever imagine.

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I just felt, you know, from that age,

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I would absolutely love one day,
somehow, to sail around the world.

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[In February 2005,
Ellen set a new world record

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for fastest solo
circumnavigation of the globe.]

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When you set off on those journeys,

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you know, you take with you
everything you need for your survival.

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What you have is all you have.

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You have to manage what you have

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down to the last drop of diesel,
the last packet of food.

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It's absolutely essential,
else you won't make it.

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And I suddenly realized,
"But why is our world any different?"

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You know, we have finite resources,

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available to us once
in the history of humanity.

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You know, metals, plastics, fertilizers.

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We're digging all this stuff
out of the ground, and we're using it up.

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How can that work in the long-term?

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Surely there was a different way
we could use resources globally

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that used them and not used them up.