Occupation: Environmentalist Birth: February 8, 1946
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 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 ….
How much harm does a company have to do before we question its right to exist?.
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….
Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development..
Interestingly, the oil companies know very well that in less than 30 years they will not only be charging very high prices, but that they will be unc….
That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and char….
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….
We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy it..
The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.
If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down..
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….
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 ….
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 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….