A local company has more accountability.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course. The world would become religious overnight. We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God. Instead, the stars come out every night, and we watch television.

Natural capitalism is not about making sudden changes, uprooting institutions, or fomenting upheaval for a new social order. Natural capitalism is about making small, critical choices that can tip economic and social factors in positive ways.

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.

I'd rather fail at something important than succeed at something trivial.

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

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.