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Paul Hawken


American
February 8, 1946
Environmentalist
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In short, industrialism is over.


Paul Hawken
Tags: Over Short
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A local company has more accountability.


Paul Hawken
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The self-owned and -operated business is the freest life in the world.


Paul Hawken
There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum.
Paul Hawken
This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Civilization needs a new operating system.
Paul Hawken
Tags: Them New Came
When you pollute a river, it's a supreme injustice to those who are downstream and those who live in the river who are not human beings.
Paul Hawken
Tags: You Who Those
We have an economy that tells us that it is cheaper to destroy Earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and sustain it.
Paul Hawken
Tags: Time Than Us
Intelligent policies will be largely self-regulating in the sense that the system of incentives and standards makes it absolutely ludicrous to not move towards clean, internalized systems of cost and production.
Paul Hawken
Tags: Will Makes Sense
The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds, and being reinvested in companies that repeat this process because it provides the highest return on that financial capital.
Paul Hawken
Tags: Because Our Being
Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.
Paul Hawken
Tags: Time You More
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.
Paul Hawken
Commercial institutions, proud of their achievements, do not see that healthy living systems - clean air and water, healthy soil, stable climates - are integral to a functioning economy. As our living systems deteriorate, traditional forecasting and business economics become the equivalent of house rules on a sinking cruise ship.
Paul Hawken
Tags: Business Our See
Class of 2009: you are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being on Earth at a time when every living system is declining, and the rate of decline is accelerating. Kind of a mind-boggling situation... but not one peer-reviewed paper published in the last thirty years can refute that statement.
Paul Hawken
Tags: Time You Out