Local companies don't have to internalize their costs, and few actually do, but they tend to more often because the owners live… — Paul Hawken Kids Copy Share Image
We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create. — Paul Hawken Poverty Copy Share Image
Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and persistence. It… — Paul Hawken Activity Copy Share Image
Don't be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see… — Paul Hawken Checks Copy Share Image
When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are… — Paul Hawken Age Copy Share Image
What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore… — Paul Hawken Beauty Copy Share Image
Mother's milk would be banned by the food safety laws of industrialized nations if it were sold as a packaged good. — Paul Hawken Banned Copy Share Image
The United States prides itself on being the richest country in the world. Yet we can't balance the budget, pay for education,… — Paul Hawken Aged Copy Share Image
I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this… — Paul Hawken Climate Copy Share Image
When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are… — Paul Hawken Age Copy Share Image
When cattle ranchers clear rain forests to raise beef to sell to fast-food chains that make hamburgers to sell to Americans, who… — Paul Hawken American Copy Share Image
How is it that we have created an economic system that tells us it is cheaper to destroy the earth and exhaust… — Paul Hawken Cheaper Copy Share Image
People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this… — Paul Hawken Age Copy Share Image
Commercial institutions, proud of their achievements, do not see that healthy living systems - clean air and water, healthy soil, stable climates… — Paul Hawken Achievements Copy Share Image
We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of stealing it. We can either… — Paul Hawken Assets Copy Share Image
If they [companies] believe they are in business to serve people, to help solve problems, to use and employ the ingenuity of… — Paul Hawken Believe Copy Share Image
If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even… — Paul Hawken Change Copy Share Image
Real change occurs from the bottom up; it occurs person to person, and it almost always occurs in small groups and locales… — Paul Hawken Almost Copy Share Image
The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy. — Paul Hawken Business Copy Share Image
The responses that environmentalists evoke - fear, anxiety, numbness, despair - are not helpful, even if they are understandable. It should be… — Paul Hawken Anxiety Copy Share Image
Intelligent policies will be largely self-regulating in the sense that the system of incentives and standards makes it absolutely ludicrous to not… — Paul Hawken Clean Copy Share Image
Business is correct to defend its right to act in order to produce a vigorous and engaging prosperity. But it is wrong… — Paul Hawken Business Copy Share Image
Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to… — Paul Hawken Change Copy Share Image
We have reached a point where the value we do add to our economy is now being outweighed by the value we… — Paul Hawken Add Copy Share Image
“Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would… — Paul Hawken Astronomy Copy Share Image
Natural capital is easy to overlook because it is the pond we swim in. One can live perfectly well without ever giving… — Paul Hawken Because Copy Share Image
While there may be no "right" way to value a forest or a river, there is a wrong way, which is to… — Paul Hawken Asks Copy Share Image
Hindered by asthma since I was six weeks old, I had begun experimenting with my diet and discovered a disquieting correlation. When… — Paul Hawken Additives Copy Share Image
I doubt very much that the chief executives of any of the Fortune 500 corporations can name five edible plants, five native… — Paul Hawken Any Copy Share Image
Writing is my way of diving deep into an issue. My approach is to watch, read and listen - sometimes for years… — Paul Hawken Approach Copy Share Image
Yes, population is a huge problem - birth rates are too high. And in order to take care of the environment, we… — Paul Hawken Birth Copy Share Image
Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being incorporated into the system. And as that… — Paul Hawken Destructive Copy Share Image
“Today, 314,000 wind turbines supply nearly 4 percent of global electricity. And it will soon be much more. Ten million homes in… — Paul Hawken Climate Copy Share Image
The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds, and being reinvested in companies that repeat… — Paul Hawken Corporations Copy Share Image
It is possible for the assembly-line worker consigned to tightening the bolts on the transmission and the office worker who processes medical… — Paul Hawken Attitude Copy Share Image
We subsidize the disposal of waste in all its myriad forms — from landfills, to Superfund cleanups, to deep-well injection, to storage… — Paul Hawken Disposal Copy Share Image
And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themselves, their workers feel better,… — Paul Hawken Business Copy Share Image
The problems to be faced are vast and complex, but come down to this: 6.6 billion people are breeding exponentially. The process… — Paul Hawken Billions Copy Share Image
The great thing about the dilemma we're in is that we get to re-imagine every single thing we do...There isn't a single… — Paul Hawken Alive Copy Share Image
It is critical to realize that underlying the extermination of nature is the marginalization of human beings. If we are to save… — Paul Hawken Boundaries Copy Share Image
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