"Thanks for those very kind words. And keep up your good work!" - Thomas Friedman, Comment on this post: Mother Nature and Father Greed

"I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues." - Lorax.  Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

"An ethic of conservation declares that maintaining our natural world is a value that is impossible to quantify but also impossible to ignore, because of the sheer beauty, wonder, joy, and magic that nature brings to being alive."- Thomas Friedman, Hot, Flat, and Crowded, 5th paragraph from the end of ch. 13

"what a neat blog--that's full of useful stuff." - Bill McKibben, in response to me emailing him my praise for his book Deep Economy, and asking him to check out blog.mapawatt.  (received via email)

"Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, nonsustainable aberration in human development. What might be called "industrial capitalism" does not fully conform to its own accounting principles.   It liquidates its capital and calls it income.  It neglects to assign any value to the largest stocks of capital it employs - the natural resources and living systems, as well as the social and cultural systems that are the basis of human capital." - Paul Hawkins, Amory Lovins and Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism, ch. 1, page 5

"For some reason, the conservative right has been downright obstinate in their opposition to embracing Sustainable principles.  This may be because the liberal left has been so haphazard and unrealistic in the pursuit of their environmental goals.  Sustainability is non-partisan.  It is doing what's right for Americans, their Environment, their ability to support their families, their Happiness, and their ability to pass that Happiness down to the next generation.  No viable political party on Earth would dare oppose these values." - Chris Kaiser, co-founder of mapawatt.com

“Mother Nature doesn’t do bailouts.” - Glenn Prickett, Conservation International

"Good design can release humankind from its neurotic relationship to absurd acts of destruction, and aim it toward a destiny that is far more "realistic" and enduring.  The urge to create beauty is an untapped power, and it exists in commerce as well as in society." - Paul Hawken, Introduction of The Ecology of Commerce.