It is in this space of mastery over paradigms that people throw off addictions, live in constant joy, bring down empires, get locked up or burned at ….

I call the transformed world toward which we can move ‘sustainable,’ by which I mean a great deal more than a world that merely sustains itself uncha….

A good leader sets the right goals, gets things moving, and helps us to discover that we already know what to do..

Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent..

No one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. No one can define or measure any value. But if no one speaks up f….

The sustainability revolution will be organic. It will arise from the visions, insights, experiments and actions of billions of people. The burden of….

A system is a set of things people, cells, molecules, or whatever interconnected in such a way that they produce their own pattern of behavior over t….

It is not OK in this culture to talk to friends about causes you believe in, much less to ask them to join in. It's OK to blast perfect strangers wit….

A vision should be judged by the clarity of its values, not the clarity of its implementation path [in Mediated Modeling page 43].

The world is a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological - social - psychological - economic system. We treat it as if it were not, as if it were d….

There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair..

Since the Earth is finite, and we will have to stop expanding sometime, should we do it before or after nature's diversity is gone?.

There are no separate systems. The world is a continuum. Where to draw a boundary around a system depends on the purpose of the discussion..

Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not distort, delay, or sequester information.

The first commandment of economics is: Grow. Grow forever. Companies get bigger. National economies need to swell by a certain percent each year. Peo….

Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature ne….

We don't think a sustainable society need be stagnant, boring, uniform, or rigid. It need not be, and probably could not be, centrally controlled or ….

The scarcest resource is not oil, metals, clean air, capital, labour, or technology. It is our willingness to listen to each other and learn from eac….

Models can easily become so complex that they are impenetrable, unexaminable, and virtually unalterable..

The actions of my government are not bearable. They devastate our natural resources and deprive our people. The politicians speak piously while pract….

Any system, biological, economic, or social, that gets so encrusted that it cannot self-evolve, a system that systematically scorns experimentation a….