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There are insistent calls for autonomy, appeals for a new resource ethic based on the tradition of the commons, demands for the reinstatement of cultural primacy over corporate hegemony, and a rising demand for radical transparency in politics and corporate decision making. It has been said that environmentalism failed as a movement, or worse yet, died. It is the other way around. Everyone on earth will be an environmentalist in the not too distant future, driven there by necessity and experience.

Paul Hawken's Popular Quotes

In short, industrialism is over.

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Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with the…

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Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course. The w…

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Sustainability is an economic state where the demands placed upon the environment by people and commerce can be met without reducing the capacity of …

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First we need to decide what needs to be done. Then we do it. And then we ask if it is possible.

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What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance o…

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All is connected ... no one thing can change by itself.

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Business is the only mechanism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environments and social degrada…

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When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on ea…

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