Fundamentally transforming the foundations of the economy is the biggest contribution we can make towards building a sustainable future. The current economic crisis may be painful, but it will be nothing compared with the crises we will face if we continue to grow in a way that threatens the life-support systems on which we rely

Peace, non-violence, human rights and the environment - if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are

The future will be green, or not at all. This truth lies at the heart of humankind's most pressing challenge: to learn to live in harmony with the Earth on a genuinely sustainable basis.

Any regeneration project that fails to put environmental and social benefits at its very heart is unlikely to achieve anything more than a very short-lived spasm of spurious prosperity

...deficit consumption is, in effect, drawing down on the capital entitlements of future generations

Humankind's greatest priority is to reintegrate with the natural world.

Keeping people on side is a precondition of making any progress on sustainability issues