Natural Capitalism

big automakers start with two major disadvantages, namely that they’re big, and that they’re automakers.

The placement of structures on the land also affects our sense of community, for it determines both where we must go, and how we can do so,

INVESTING IN NATURAL CAPITAL. This works toward reversing worldwide planetary destruction through reinvestments in sustaining, restoring, and expanding stocks of natural capital, so that the biosphere can produce more abundant ecosystem services and natural resources.

The result can be illusory gains in income and permanent losses in wealth.”

“Most people believe the alternative to cars is better transit—in truth, it’s better neighborhoods.” 71

Range management based on an understanding of the ecology of each piece of land, often using more cattle, more intensely resident for shorter and less frequent periods,

Paper recycling, which in 1994 was of a volume sufficient to fill a 15-mile train of boxcars daily,53 is expected to contribute about 47 percent of fiber inputs to U.S. papermaking by 2000,

Sensible land use would make many trips unnecessary by clustering within walking distance the main places where people want to be.

that every input had to be presumed waste until shown otherwise.