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
What a great time to be born, what a great time to be alive, because this generation gets to completely change this… — Paul Hawken Alive Copy Share Image
We have to ask ourselves, 'What kind of world is it where a baby-food executive substitutes artificial flavoring and sugar for apple… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Inspiration is not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity's willingness to restore, redress, reform, rebuild,… — Paul Hawken Humanity Copy Share Image
This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Civilization needs a new operating system. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
You can blame people who knock things over in the dark or you can begin to light candles. You're only at fault… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
We have an economy that tells us that it is cheaper to destroy Earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and… — Paul Hawken 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 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
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
My advice for people is to love the world they are in, in whatever way makes sense to them. It may be… — Paul Hawken Activist 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
Class of 2009: you are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being on Earth at… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
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
Money and prices and markets don't give us exact information about how much our suburbs, freeways, and spandex cost. Instead, everything else… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all… — Paul Hawken Governing 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
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
We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But… — Paul Hawken 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 Copy Share Image
Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are internalizing costs on a voluntary basis and… — Paul Hawken Business Copy Share Image
Throughout the industrial era, economists considered manufactured capital - money, factories, etc. - the principal factor in industrial production, and perceived natural… — Paul Hawken Balance 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 Copy Share Image
Sustainability is an economic state where the demands placed upon the environment by people and commerce can be met without reducing the… — Paul Hawken Amends Copy Share Image
We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the… — Paul Hawken Business Copy Share Image
Natural capitalism is not about making sudden changes, uprooting institutions, or fomenting upheaval for a new social order. Natural capitalism is about… — Paul Hawken Business Copy Share Image
his planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Important rules like don’t poison the water,… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
We're trained to see the world in terms of charismatic organizations and charismatic people. That's who we look to for leadership and… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren't pessimistic, you don’t have the correct… — Paul Hawken Data Copy Share Image
Enslaving each other was what human beings had done for ages. And the abolitionist movement was greeted with incredulity. Conservative spokesmen ridiculed… — Paul Hawken Abolitionist Copy Share Image
The generations before you failed. They didn’t stay up all night. They got distracted and lost sight of the fact that life… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to… — Paul Hawken Age Copy Share Image
Seeing the world around you clearly is a critical step in developing an idea for a business, carrying out that idea, and… — Paul Hawken 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
How is it that we have created an economic system that tells us it is cheaper to destroy the earth and exhaust… — Paul Hawken 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 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
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
