Tao Te Ching: The man who knows that enough is enough will always have enough
C. Beavan: The trick to environmental living might not be in choosing different products. Instead […] it might partly be about choosing fewer products.
C. Beavan: No one can live without making some environmental impact.
C. Beavan: [I]t’s a lot easier to say that our culture should be more sustainable than to actually make it that way.
C. Beavan: [H]ow truly necessary are many of the conveniences we take for granted but that, in their manufacture and use, hurt our habitat? How much of our consumption of the planet’s resources actually makes us happier and how much just keeps us chained up as wage slaves?
C. Beavan: In the voting booth, whether you pull the red handle or the blue handle, you always pull a big-business handle
C. Beavan: [W]hile reports pour in exclaiming the urgency of our environmental problems, government and big business move only at a snail’s pace, if at all.
Lake Erie Bill of Rights
A grassroots-initiative amendment to Toledo's City Charter. "No permit, license, privilege, charter or other authorization issued to a corporation, by any state or federal entity … (violating) this law… shall be deemed valid within … Toledo.”
