Occupation: Environmentalist Birth: February 8, 1946
The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy..
We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy it..
The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer..
Don't be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are done..
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 first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.
We subsidize the disposal of waste in all its myriad forms — from landfills, to Superfund cleanups, to deep-well injection, to storage of nuclear was….
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..
There are insistent calls for autonomy, appeals for a new resource ethic based on the tradition of the commons, demands for the reinstatement of cult….
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 problems to be faced are vast and complex, but come down to this: 6.6 billion people are breeding exponentially. The process of fulfilling their ….
You are Brilliant and the Earth is Hiring..
What a great time to be born! What a great time to be alive! Because this generation gets to essentially completely change the world..
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 ….
Mother's milk would be banned by the food safety laws of industrialized nations if it were sold as a packaged good..
The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even comp….
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….
What we already know frames what we see, and what we see frames what we understand..
That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and char….
If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down..
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….