Occupation: Environmentalist Birth: February 8, 1946
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? ….
It costs the same to send a person to prison or to Harvard. The difference is the curriculum..
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 ….
The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds, and being reinvested in companies t….
At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product..
We have reached a point where the value we do add to our economy is now being outweighed by the value we are removing, not only from future generatio….
If they [companies] believe they are in business to serve people, to help solve problems, to use and employ the ingenuity of their workers to improve….
The bottom line is down where it belongs – at the bottom. Far above it in importance are the infinite number of events that produce the profit or los….
We have an economy that tells us it is cheaper to destroy earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and sustain it. You can print money to bail ….
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….
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….
his planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Important rules like don’t poison the water, soil, or air, don’t let ….
Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is..
The bottom line is down where it belongs - at the bottom..
A local company has more accountability..
Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being incorporated into the system. And as that happens th….
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….
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….
Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich..
You can blame people who knock things over in the dark or you can begin to light candles. You're only at fault if you know about the problem and choo….
If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really….