The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.
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Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet.
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And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themselves, their workers feel better, and so do their customers. I think this is equally true in the transnational corporations, but it is harder to express in those situations.
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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.
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We have an economy that tells us that it is cheaper to destroy Earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and sustain it.
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We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.
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