The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them

I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.

We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.

The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer.

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.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

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