Really, the proper study of economics is fulfilment, not consumption... It doesn't even matter if it's a green product or a green… — Paul Hawken Aspirations Copy Share Image
The atmosphere does not fathom whether CO2 comes from U.S. oil or Chinese coal, nor do hurricanes lose force because the Heritage… — Paul Hawken Atmosphere 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
Business is destroying the world, with flair, expertise, and panache. — Paul Hawken Business 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
We have the capacity to create a remarkably different economy: one that can restore ecosystems and protect the environment while bringing forth… — Paul Hawken Bringing Copy Share Image
If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top… — Paul Hawken Grass Copy Share Image
Being in business is not about making money. It is a way to become who you are. — Paul Hawken Business Copy Share Image
The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even… — Paul Hawken Compassionate 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
There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum. — Paul Hawken Between 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
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 have an economy that tells us it is cheaper to destroy earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and sustain… — Paul Hawken Bail Copy Share Image
It costs the same to send a person to prison or to Harvard. The difference is the curriculum. — Paul Hawken Cost Copy Share Image
Biological diversity is messy. It walks, it crawls, it swims, it swoops, it buzzes. But extinction is silent, and it has no… — Paul Hawken Biological 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
Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is. — Paul Hawken Movement 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
We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which… — Paul Hawken Environmental Copy Share Image
Business is the only mechanism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environments and social… — Paul Hawken Business 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
That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems,… — Paul Hawken Growth 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
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