For proponents of ecosystem-based management,the good news is that another new book, Ecosystem-based Management for the Oceans, conveys the topic at its… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
Imagining the world without us is a recipe for despair and paralysis. I actually think it's more helpful to imagine the world… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Look at any financial institution, at any bank. They're all photocopies of each other. There's no diversity of institutions and even less… — Bernard Lietaer Copy Share Image
Progress does not have to be patented to be worthwhile. Progress can also be measured by our interactions with nature and its… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Even if we act immediately, the world is doomed to lose many of its animal and plant species and this inturn will… — Achim Steiner Copy Share Image
My sense is that the most under-appreciated-and perhaps most under-researched-linkages between forests and food security are the roles that forest-based ecosystem services… — Frances Ford Seymour Copy Share Image
Biology is a science of three dimensions. The first is the study of each species across all levels of biological organization, molecule… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
There are definitely recurring themes in humanity's relationship with our environment. The biggest is probably adaptation, because humans are incredibly good at… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
That's why we call for a New Deal prototype. Which means we are creating the jobs - nationally funded program but locally… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
It's a flaw in our argument, for sure. By any reading of evolutionary theory, creationists ought to have died out ages ago.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
TIME WENT ON, life with the children unfolding in its own ecosystem, small plastic toys seeming to grow up from the carpet… — Erica Bauermeister Copy Share Image
Perhaps walking is best imagined as an 'indicator species,' to use an ecologist's term. An indicator species signifies the health of an… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Your immune systems are comprised of all parts of the eco-system you know as yourself, and include not only every part of… — Robin Rose Bennett Copy Share Image
The industrial way we fish for seafood is harming the marine habitats that all ocean life depends upon. Indiscriminate commercial fishing practices… — Ted Danson Copy Share Image
We are surrounded by a lot of failed ecosystems; the moon being one, Mars, Venus. Theres evidence of water on Mars and… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
The "developed" nations had given to the "free market" the status of a god, and were sacrificing to it their farmers, farmlands,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
digital hub (center of our universe) is moving from PC to cloud - PC now just another client alongside iPhone, iPad, iPod… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
What most people know but don't realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn't… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
It's upsetting to me that so many people think of themselves as environmentalists and still eat meat and dairy products. I think… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
“Under this system, nonliving things, such as industries and products, are often valued more than living organisms, such as ecosystems and basic… — Natalia Rose Copy Share Image
Climate change is not a major issue because it will cause sea level rises or temperature increases, since we know how to… — Shailesh Rao Copy Share Image
We're handing them [young people & future generations] a climate system which is potentially out of their control. We're in an emergency:… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
The widespread abuse of prisoners is a virtually foolproof indication that politicians are trying to impose a system--whether political, religious or economic--that… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind of culture… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If you think of the universe as a vast electrical sea in which you are immersed and from which you are formed,… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
It is about time that the religious and environmental faithful joined forces. No one wins when divisive politics pits the right to… — Alex Bruce Copy Share Image
Every life lesson that trickled its way into my being came from a mutually respectful relationship between the environment and my family.… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big trees and… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Because the global ecosystem is a connected whole, in which nothing can be gained or lost and which is not subject to… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
We are facing another economic meltdown. The ecosystem, on which the human species depends for life, is being destroyed at a rate… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“But as the Everglades continued to wither, a few of their colleagues began to wonder if conservation really should mean development more… — Michael Grunwald Copy Share Image