Occupation: Environmentalist Birth: February 8, 1946
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 ….
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..
It costs the same to send a person to prison or to Harvard. The difference is the curriculum..
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….
Local companies don't have to internalize their costs, and few actually do, but they tend to more often because the owners live there and they have t….
We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create..
We are the only species on this planet without full employment..
Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich..
Being in business is not about making money. It is a way to become who you are..
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….
We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of stealing it. We can either create assets for the future or take ….
The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy..
Inspiration is not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity's willingness to restore, redress, reform, rebuild, recov….
At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product..
Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services..
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….
Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being incorporated into the system. And as that happens th….
What we already know frames what we see, and what we see frames what we understand..
It is critical to realize that underlying the extermination of nature is the marginalization of human beings. If we are to save what is wild, what is….
My advice for people is to love the world they are in, in whatever way makes sense to them. It may be a devotional practice, it may be song or poetry….