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we had to look to the Iroquois and their seven-generation planning, and not to corporate America,
Naomi Klein • Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual
Rainwater-holding cisterns are affordable when measured against the water-supply and storm-water-drain investments they make unnecessary.
Paul Hawken • Natural Capitalism
management-intensive rotational grazing (MIRG)
Paul Hawken • Natural Capitalism
spread their orienting philosophies—no
The Worldwatch Institute • State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?
We spend $50 billion a year to guard sea lanes bringing oil from sources we would not need if the Reagan administration had not gutted light-vehicle efficiency standards in 1986.
Paul Hawken • Natural Capitalism
A particularly exciting area of leapfrog improvements is the potential to replace high-temperature processes with gentler, cheaper ones based on biological models that often involve using actual microorganisms or enzymes.
Paul Hawken • Natural Capitalism
This hidden carbon stock, often upward of 44 tons of carbon per acre, is at risk of mobilization into the air if insensitive farming practices defeat living systems’ tendency to fix carbon into soil biota.
Paul Hawken • Natural Capitalism
For decades, environmental justice communities have been elucidating how businesses largely caused the four intertwined crises we face—climate, biodiversity, injustice, and democracy—and made a windfall doing it.
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson • What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures
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