146 Quotes by Paul Hawken

Throughout the industrial era, economists considered manufactured capital - money, factories, etc. - the principal factor in industrial production, and perceived natural capital as a marginal contributor. The exclusion of natural capital from balance sheets was an understandable omission. There was so much of it, it didn't seem worth counting.

That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems.

There is no polite way to say that business is destroying the world.

We are the only species on the planet without full employment. Brilliant.

Green business is not about tie-dyed T-shirts. It's about transforming the industrial system itself into one that looks at all the connections.

Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet.

We have an economy that tells us that it is cheaper to destroy Earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and sustain it.

You can print money to bail out a bank, but you can't print life to bail out a planet.

Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to the top as minority or plurality powers. But they do not represent either the shift, the change, or the future.