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People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.

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Ha-Joon Chang23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's env...

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Until there is a reversal of the sense of values which cares more for size and appearance than for q...

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When we use these words and we talk about plants having a strategy to do this or wanting this or des...

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The more serious about gardening I became, the more dubious lawns seemed. The problem for me was not...

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Michael PollanSecond Nature: A Gardener's Education

. . . .how and what we eat determines to a great extent the use we make of the world--and what is to...

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Michael PollanThe Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with t...

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What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideratio...

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I'm not one of those academics that don't do shit but reads about it. The difference is, I do shit. ...

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Sustainability goes across everything I do with Adidas and everything I do with my own house, so the...

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Alas, our technology has marched ahead of our spiritual and social evolution, making us, frankly, a ...

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We're reaching the point where the Earth will have to end the burden we've placed on her, if we don'...

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Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.

Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the ...

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What is the point of "labor saving" if by making work effortless we make it poor, and if by doing po...

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The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.

Laten we op zoek gaan naar 'vreugde' in plaats van naar eerlijk voedsel en schone lucht en een gezon...

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...a woman smart and persistent enough that even a PhD in psychology hasn't clouded her insight into...

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To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way a...

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We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.

There is a deeper point to be made here, however, having to do with the specificity of everything. O...

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