Many business leaders are asking fundamental questions about what business they're in, why they are doing it and how it can be used as a means of healing human and natural communities.

What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?

We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.

Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable.

Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer!

Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.

I'm a practitioner of elegant frugality. I don't feel comfortable telling other people what to do, so I just try and lead by example.

I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted.

If you ask me, it'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it.

Economies are supposed to serve human ends.. not the other way round. We forget at our peril that markets make a good servant, a bad master and a worse religion.

The barriers that renewables and efficiency face come less from our living in a capitalist market economy and more from not taking market economics seriously.

What if I'm in charge of my own damn light switch?

If our eyes could see everything, every man would see his own faults.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who execute them are not.

I guess Ziggy would have been the perfect vehicle to have done with.

It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as you go along.

You are able to create an environment so that the creative process can take place and that you can get people to perform at their highest levels.

Television ... the new gladiatorial arena.

In a baby's first months, the earliest patterns of intimacy or distrust are forever grooved into his soul.

I spin on the circle of wave upon wave of the sea.

I am very into genealogy and heritage, and that's how I started writing.