We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we’re surrendering it all at the same time.
A local company has more accountability.
Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich.
The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even competitive.
We subsidize the disposal of waste in all its myriad forms from landfills to Superfund cleanups, from deep-well injection to storage of nuclear waste. In the process, we encourage an economy where 80 percent of what we consume gets thrown away after one use.
The bottom line is down where it belongs – at the bottom.
You are Brilliant and the Earth is Hiring.
Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is.
Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services.
Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development.
Don’t go to business school.
The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy.
And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themselves, their workers feel better, and so do their customers. I think this is equally true in the transnational corporations, but it is harder to express in those situations.
It costs the same to send a person to prison or to Harvard. The difference is the curriculum.
Green business is not about tie-dyed T-shirts. It’s about transforming the industrial system itself into one that looks at all the connections.
We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy it.
Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are internalizing costs on a voluntary basis and therefore raising their costs of doing business, but their competitors are not required to.
How much harm does a company have to do before we question its right to exist?
When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the Dark Ages of commerce.
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 to show their face in town, and their kids play with other kids.