Today we find ourselves faced with the imminent end of the era of cheap oil, the prospect (beyond the recent bubble) of steadily rising commodity prices, the degradation of forests, lakes and soils, conflicts over land use, water quality, fishing rights and the momentous challenge of stabilising concentrations of carbon in the global atmosphere.

If pornographers are among the early adopters of the new technology, then it has definite commercial possibilities.

Today we find ourselves faced with the imminent end of the era of cheap oil, the prospect (beyond the recent bubble) of steadily rising commodity prices, the degradation of forests, lakes and soils, conflicts over land use, water quality, fishing rights and the momentous challenge of stabilising concentrations of carbon in the global atmosphere.

[We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.

Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.

The history of jazz for the last 45 years has come through the Monterey Jazz Festival stages. I think there's developed a legacy and an aura around the festival.

For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures.