Occupation: Environmentalist Birth: February 8, 1946
Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course. The w….
All is connected ... no one thing can change by itself..
Sustainability is an economic state where the demands placed upon the environment by people and commerce can be met without reducing the capacity of ….
Business is the only mechanism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environments and social degrada….
First we need to decide what needs to be done. Then we do it. And then we ask if it is possible..
What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance o….
When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on ea….
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with the….
We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrenderi….
Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break..
In short, industrialism is over..
Don't go to business school..
We are the only species on this planet without full employment..
Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and persistence. It is not a liberal ….
If everyone thinks you have a good idea, you´re too late.
We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement h….
I'd rather fail at something important than succeed at something trivial..
Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services..
How much harm does a company have to do before we question its right to exist?.
People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is….
Only caring individuals can restore the places we inhabit. The 'simple act of planting a tree' not only restores the places we live, but makes us who….