“In an improv group and a successful work team, the members play off one another, each person's contributions providing the spark for the next. Together, the improvisational team creates a novel emergent product, one that's more responsive to the changing environment.” PersonsPlayTogetherNextNovelSuccessfulEnvironmentGroupsTeamProductsMembersContributionCollaborationSparksProvidingSuccessful WorkChanging Environment Author:R. Keith Sawyer
“I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary.” KnowsDoeCountryGovernmentViewsEnvironmentGroupsEnvironmentalAdversaries Author:Gro Harlem Brundtland
“Unlike a child in a totally urban environment, my friends and peer group were not only other children, but also wild and domesticated animals, plants of every sort, brooks and waterfalls, rocks and sand.” ChildrenAnimalEnvironmentGroupsRocksMy FriendsPlantSandUrbanPeersBrooksWaterfallsPeer GroupDomesticated AnimalsUrban Environment Author:Freeman Patterson
“I think that women as a group are so powerful. I still don't think we are able to embrace our power well enough yet. We think we live in a man's world and we have to follow their rules, and yet, we're so different, and our rules are so different. I wish that we could come together more as a political force. If women ran the world, I don't believe that there would be war. I really don't.... We understand the bigger picture. We understand our impact on the environment, on the world. We understand the generations that will go after us because we gave birth to them.” IfsThinkingMenWorldBelieveWellsStillsDifferentWarEnoughWould BeAbleTogetherPoliticalForceWishWomenPowerfulEnvironmentGenerationsGroupsBirthBiggerImpactEmbraceDon't BelieveRanBigger Picture Author:Kyra Sedgwick
“Trusting people to be creative and constructive when given more freedom does not imply an overly optimistic belief in the perfectibility of human nature. It is, rather, belief that the inevitable errors and sins of the human condition are far better overcome by individuals working together in an environment of trust and freedom and mutual respect than by individuals working under a multitude of rules, regulations, and restraints imposed upon them by another group of imperfect individuals.” PeopleHumansDoeTogetherIndividualBeliefGivenSinCreativeEnvironmentGroupsConditionsHuman NatureOvercomingErrorsOptimisticInevitableWorking TogetherMutualImperfectHuman ConditionRegulationMultitudesRestraintBe CreativeConstructiveMutual RespectTrusting People Author:Peter Senge
“Increasingly, politics is not about "who gets what, when, how" but about values, each of them considered to be absolute. Politics is about "the right to life"...It is about the environment. It is about gaining equality for groups alleged to be oppressed...None of these issues is economic. All are fundamentally moral.” ValuesMoralIssuesEnvironmentGroupsEconomicAbsolutesOppressedRight To Life Author:Peter Drucker
“The Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group strongly supports green-line policies, because the only way to attract top level employees and their families is to protect the region's open space and environment. We want to build a community that is demonstrates smart growth rather than a model for L.A.-type growth.” WayWantGrowthNatureCommunityLinesSpaceLevelsSupportEnvironmentGroupsPolicyTypeProtectModelsSmartGreenEmployeeRegionsValleysConservationManufacturingSiliconSilicon ValleyOpen SpacesSmart Growth Author:Carl Guardino
“John Marks Templeton has achieved exemplary success in both business and philanthropy. For Looking Forward he has assembled a diverse and remarkable group of experts in their fields-including the environment, medicine, the physical sciences, religion, the family, and international relations-and contributed two stellar pieces as well. Together these essays dispel fashionable pessimism and show how the world can progress-and is progressing-toward a better future.” WorldWellsTwoShowsTogetherEnvironmentPiecesProgressGroupsFieldsMarkRelationMedicineIncludingInternationalExpertsRemarkablePessimismDiversePhilanthropyEssaysLooking ForwardFashionableInternational RelationsBetter FutureScience ReligionPhysical ScienceExemplaryStellar Author:Rupert Murdoch
“The differences you perceive between Humans-between groups of Humans-are the result of isolation and inbreeding, mutation, and adaptation to different Earth environments” HumansDifferentEarthDifferencesResultsEnvironmentGroupsPerceiveIsolationAdaptationMutationInbreeding Book:Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago Source: Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago
“Under weak government, in a wide, thinly populated country, in the struggle against the raw natural environment and with the freeplay of economic forces, unified social groups become the transmitters of culture.” CountryGovernmentAmericaCultureForceSocialNaturalStruggleEnvironmentGroupsEconomicWeakWideUnifiedNatural EnvironmentSocial GroupsWeak Government Author:Johan Huizinga
“If humanity today succeeds in combining the new scientific capacities with a strong ethical dimension, it will certainly be able to promote the environment as a home and a resource for...all...and will be able to eliminate the causes of pollution and to guarantee adequate conditions of hygiene and health for small groups as well as for vast human settlements.” IfsHumansWellsHomeTodayAbleHumanityStrongCausesEnvironmentGroupsConditionsSucceedResourcesCapacityEnvironmentalDimensionsGuaranteesEthicalSustainabilityPollutionAdequateSettlementSmall GroupsCombiningHygiene Author:Pope John Paul II
“It is important to understand that there are two separate battles taking place in Iraq: there is the political rift between the Sunnis, Shia and the Kurds and there is a foreign extremist group - ISIS - trying to take advantage of the political environment through violence. If the Iraqis can resolve their political differences, it will be far more difficult for ISIS to thrive. Moving forward, we should continue to evaluate additional steps to help combat ISIS as we see what the Iraqis are willing to do politically, but we must also firmly guard against mission creep.” IfsShouldTryingTwoImportantHelpingMovingPoliticalDifficultDifferencesStepsEnvironmentViolenceGroupsMilitaryWillingBattleAdvantageIraqMissionsMoving ForwardThriveResolveCombatIsisCreepsEvaluateExtremistKurdsShiaRiftPolitical EnvironmentPolitical DifferencesExtremist Groups Author:David Adam Smith
“You can't motivate a group of people or a Team. You have to motivate people individually, and that motivation has to be in an environment in which that person has a goal - something they want to accomplish in their lives.” PeopleWantPersonsMotivationGoalEnvironmentGroupsTeamAccomplish Author:Lou Holtz
“I think the Sierra Club is the environmental group that has the best chance of really accomplishing things. It's well known, and it actually gets down to doing the dirty work of protecting the environment.” ThinkingWellsChanceKnownEnvironmentGroupsEnvironmentalClubsDirtyWell KnownSierraDirty Work Author:Tom Scholz