« You want ketchup with that? | Main | NY Times: John Kerry for President » Paul HawkenJamais Cascio just posted at WorldChanging about a Paul Hawken speechin SF. An entrepreneur and an environmentalist, Hawken has written about sustainable approaches to business in books like Ecology of Commerce. More at his web site and the site for Natural Capital Institute. Says Jamais, Hawken articulated, in passionate language, a vision that aligned with and expanded what we've been saying here at WorldChanging: there's a revolution taking place, one which is powered by (and in turn powers) the efforts of thousands of disparate movements, groups, networks, ideas, and people, all over the world. They are distributed and diverse, not focused on ideology or power; in fact, this is the largest movement in history not seeking power. It is mainstream, but not centralized, so it often seems to operate beneath the media radar. It links social justice and environmentalism, activism and science. And it is changing the world.I say a lot about the need to build activist networks, but we have to focus on a politics of sustainability and survival along the way. Consider the cells that make up the human body: healthy cells sustain; unconstrained growth usually means cancer. (I think that metaphor works, but even if not, I hope you get the idea... I think we say "sustainable" over and over and lose track of what it means, which is part of a background discussion we've been having at WorldChagning). jon posted this at 4:09 PM |
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Posted by: johnpaul hoppe | May 14, 2007 6:47 PM