The Earth is hiring

John Elkington

May 23, 2009

Well worth a read is Paul Hawken’s extraordinary commencement speech for students at the University of Portland.

A quote:

“Hey, Class of 2009: you are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being on earth at a time when every living system is declining, and the rate of decline is accelerating. Kind of a mind-boggling situation… but not one peer-reviewed paper published in the last thirty years can refute that statement. Basically, the earth needs a new operating system, you are the programmers, and we need it within a few decades.”