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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 generations in terms of diminished resources, but from ourselves in terms of unlivable cities, deadening jobs, deteriorating health, and rising crime. In biological terms, we have become a parasite and are devouring our host.

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

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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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