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.

Don't be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are done.

We have an economy that tells us it is cheaper to destroy earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and sustain it. You can print money to bail out a bank but you can't print life to bail out a planet.

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.

The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds, and being reinvested in companies that repeat this process because it provides the highest return on that financial capital.

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

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