Paul Hawken Quotes

Permissible growth in the future has to be based on sustainable and equitable models.

Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.

There can be no lasting prosperity for our people, if we do not protect our planet.

Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.

I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.

Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment.

Recycling is an area where jobs could be created at low cost. Green collar workers. That's not very sexy.

The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development.

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

At President Obama's direction, the U.S Department of Agriculture is working hard to unleash the power of America's innovators and entrepreneurs to build a green energy economy.

What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two.

Sustainable development requires human ingenuity. People are the most important resource.

We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment.

We must preserve our planet and grow our economy simultaneously. We cannot become more prosperous without the living systems upon which our prosperity depends.

The idea of a non-growing economy may be an anathema to an economist. But the idea of a continually growing economy is an anathema to an ecologist.

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.

The premise is simple: One economy and one environment, and they're interdependent.

To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

… work [jobs] and the environment should not be played off against each other.

If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the wellbeing of the world's people enhanced - not just in this generation but in succeeding generations - we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends.

As we look to the future, we cannot improve our living standards while simultaneously degrading the natural environment around us.

By using our renewable resources, energy can be generated in a carbon-responsible, cost-effective manner that also creates jobs and mitigates climate change, providing a workable and affordable solution that will keep our planet healthy.

We want an economy that grows health and wellbeing, not debt and carbon emissions. An economy that prepares and protects us from shocks to come, rather than making them worse. An economy that shares resources to meet all our needs, regardless of background. An economy that lets us live.

I agree on the need for environmental sustainability. It is no good raising gross national income while at the same time destroying natural assets.

By far, the greatest contribution Ireland can make is to lead by example, by actively pursuing its own transition to a sustainable, low-carbon economy.