Green business is not about tie-dyed T-shirts. It's about transforming the industrial system itself into one that looks at all the connections.

Inspiration is not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity's willingness to restore, redress, reform, rebuild, recover, reimagine, and reconsider.

The bottom line is down where it belongs – at the bottom. Far above it in importance are the infinite number of events that produce the profit or loss.

We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time.

Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development.

It costs the same to send a person to prison or to Harvard. The difference is the curriculum.

What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.