much agricultural land which might be growing food is being used instead to 'grow' money (in the form of coffee, tea, etc.).

What we need to get right is not focusing on the fear associated with quantity - not enough, scarcity, and lack - and moving instead to a worldview that explores quality and connectedness.

The notion that economic life is a distinct realm, governed by immutable laws of narrow self-interest, is giving way to a much older notion: economic life is only one strand in the rich web of human relationships.

I had no identity [when I was 27] - I was terrified that somebody would ask me what I was doing, and I would have no answer.

We didn't evolve to be passive victims or shoppers.

If we cannot know what's possible, then we are free to do that which is pulling our hearts and that which is life serving.

This is the first generation to know that the choices we're making have ultimate consequences. It's a time when you either choose life or you choose death ... Going along with the current order means that you're choosing death.