“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 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
“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.” WayHas BeensSaidEarthDecisionMovementDemandEthicsResourcesTraditionDiedDrivenRadicalAppealsCorporateRisingDecision MakingAutonomyTransparencyEnvironmentalismEnvironmentalistHegemonyPrimacy Book:Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beau ty to the World Source: Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beau ty to the World
“We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the theory and the practice of free-market capitalism. It will provide business and public policy with a powerful new tool for economic development, profitability, and the promotion of the public good.” ThinkingNeedsGivingValuesNaturalPowerfulPracticeEconomicPolicyTheoryDevelopmentCapitalismResourcesEconomicsToolsFree MarketPromotionNatural ResourcesPublic PolicyEconomic DevelopmentPublic GoodProfitabilityFree Market CapitalismEconomic Resources Author:Paul Hawken
“That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age.” AgeInformationResourcesTransformationIncludingProductionsGoodsThis DayInformation AgeAppropriationGoods And Services 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. Maybe one thousandth of this aerial insecticide actually prevents the infestation. The balance goes to the leaves, into the soil, into the water, into all forms of wildlife, into ourselves. What is good for the balance sheet is wasteful of resources and harmful to life.” StillsAgeFormOrderWaterDarkFieldsBalanceResourcesDown AndPlanesSoilCommerceSheetsInsectsWildlifeDark AgesPredatorSprayPesticidesBalance SheetsInsecticides Author:Paul Hawken
