We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems We're trying to promote the idea that sustainability is sound business Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment