“Sustainability is an economic state where the demands placed upon the environment by people and commerce can be met without reducing the capacity of the environment to provide for future generations. It can also be expressed in the simple terms of an economic golden rule for the restorative economy: Leave the world better than you found it, take no more than you need, try not to harm life or the environment, make amends if you do.” PeopleIfsWorldNeedsTryingStatesFoundTermSimpleEconomyEnvironmentGenerationsEconomicMetsDemandCapacityEnvironmentalHarmGoldenSustainabilityCommerceFuture GenerationReducingBetter Than YouGolden RuleAmends Author:Paul Hawken
“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.” JobsValuesTermCitiesEconomyGenerationsCrimeResourcesAddEnvironmentalRisingHostSustainabilityFuture GenerationParasitesDevouringDeteriorating Author:Paul Hawken
“We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of stealing it. We can either create assets for the future or take the assets of the future. One is called restoration and the other exploitation. And whenever we exploit the earth we exploit people and cause untold suffering. Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich.” PeopleWayEarthSufferingCausesHealingEconomyRichEnvironmentalStealingAssetsSustainabilityExploitationExploitsRestorationGet Rich Author:Paul Hawken
“All is connected ... no one thing can change by itself.” ChangeOne ThingRiversEnvironmentalConnectedThings ChangeChange ManagementManaging ChangeChanging Environment Author:Paul Hawken
“The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even competitive.” InspiringEnvironmentFutureIntelligentEnvironmentalEndureSimplicityIntelligenceCompassionateProsperousSustainable LivingProsperous Future Author:Paul Hawken
“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.” StillsAgeOrderDarkDarknessEnvironmentSocietyFieldsDown AndEnvironmentalPlanesCommerceInsectsDark AgesPredatorSprayPesticides Author:Paul Hawken
“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.” HumansLongNaturalPathCenturyDependsResourcesEnvironmentalProductivityHeadings Author:Paul Hawken
“We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.” WayHas BeensUseNaturalOur LivesBecomingResourcesAssumingEnvironmentalImprovementEfficientBecoming MoreNatural Resources Author:Paul Hawken
“I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.” ThinkingCountryProblemPoliticalStyleMovementEnvironmentalConservativeReactionsBroadsTrendsPolitical MovementsEnvironmental ProblemsConservative Political Author:Paul Hawken
