Occupation: Environmentalist Birth: February 8, 1946
Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development..
The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy..
We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the theory and the pr….
If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down..
Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being….
How is it that we have created an economic system that tells us it is cheaper to destroy the earth and exhaust its people than to nurture them both? ….
We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend t….
The generations before you failed. They didn’t stay up all night. They got distracted and lost sight of the fact that life is a miracle every moment ….
It costs the same to send a person to prison or to Harvard. The difference is the curriculum..
Inspiration is not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity's willingness to restore, redress, reform, rebuild, recov….
The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds, and being reinvested in companies t….
What we already know frames what we see, and what we see frames what we understand..
The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.
Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are internalizing costs on a voluntary basis and the….
Green business is not about tie-dyed T-shirts. It's about transforming the industrial system itself into one that looks at all the connections..
The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even comp….
The great thing about the dilemma we're in is that we get to re-imagine every single thing we do...There isn't a single thing that doesn't require a ….
I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country i….
While there may be no "right" way to value a forest or a river, there is a wrong way, which is to give it no value at all. How do we decide the value….
Intelligent policies will be largely self-regulating in the sense that the system of incentives and standards makes it absolutely ludicrous to not mo….
And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themselves, their workers feel better, and so do their c….