We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

Quote by Paul Hawken

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Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied,...

Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied,...

We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do,...

We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do,...

I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of...

I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of...

We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our...

We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our...

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive...

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive...

What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability.

What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability.

Interestingly, the oil companies know very well that in less than 30 years they will...

Interestingly, the oil companies know very well that in less than 30 years they will...

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

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

Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being...

Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being...

And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel...

And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel...

Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are...

Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are...

Intelligent policies will be largely self-regulating in the sense that the system of incentives and...

Intelligent policies will be largely self-regulating in the sense that the system of incentives and...

That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does...

That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does...

In short, industrialism is over.

In short, industrialism is over.

Local companies don't have to internalize their costs, and few actually do, but they tend...

Local companies don't have to internalize their costs, and few actually do, but they tend...

The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds,...

The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds,...

A local company has more accountability.

A local company has more accountability.

That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the...

That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the...

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not...

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not...

People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say...

People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say...