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The Great Disruption

We've been borrowing from the future, and the debt has fallen due. The science says we have physically entered a period of great change, a synchronized, related crash of the economy and ecosystem.
— Paul Gilding
The Great Disruption

Trial and Error

"If you cannot remember what you are told, you must use trial and error. The thing to keep in mind about trial and error is that some errors are quite final.
— Sheri S. Tepper
The Awakeners

The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment

The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the other way around.
— Gaylord Nelson
Founder of Earth Day

It’s not your job to change minds

Don’t waste time arguing with someone who won’t change their minds. It’s not your job to change minds, it’s your job to find minds that want to change.
— Ev Bogue
How to Create a Movement 2.0

Business is the economic engine of our Western culture

Business is the economic engine of our Western culture, and if it could be transformed to truly serve nature as well as ourselves, it could become essential to our rescue.
— Karl-Henrik Robert
Founder , The Natural Step

vacancies in museums

If leaders don’t think in new ways, there are vacancies for them in museums
— Zaki Bani Rsheid
Political Director of Jordan’s Islamic Action Front

Don’t confuse getting rid of what you don’t want

Don’t confuse getting rid of what you don’t want, with getting what you do want.
— Dr. Don Beck

The highest purpose of humanity

The highest purpose of humanity is to be good stewards of the resources we are blessed with, not to hold our breath in an effort to minimize our CO2 emmissions.
— Matthew Lynch

other cultural perspectives

The fact that there are other cultural perspectives which prefer adaptation over manipulation is encouraging. We don't have to think the ways we currently do. We have choice.
— Erik Van Lennep

What you do makes a difference

You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
— Jane Goodall
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
— William Arthur Ward

sustainability strategies & design

Sustainability Partnerships with Nature
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