“We have the potential to enhance the planet. Trees enhance the planet. People could go further. We could make the Earth sing.”
"If every building was to consume its own sewerage that’d be huge. Then if every building made its own power, and heated and cooled itself, and caught its own water rather then sucking water out of the aquifers – the ramifications of how people live in their own units could affect things in an unbelievable way. Ultimately it would affect the minds and hearts of people."
- Michael Reynolds
Simplicity
"People can live in carbon zero homes right now. The technology is here. Allowing it to happen is the problem. Our rules and regulations won’t let us do it."
- Michael Reynolds
Simplicity
"If you took stress out of people’s lives and made them happy in terms of the way they live – if you made it easy for them to be at peace on this planet – they would bloom. And I think humanity could go to a whole different level."
- Michael Reynolds
Well-being
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
- William James
Contribution
"The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to make things better."
- Robert F. Kennedy
Contribution
"The best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself."
- Wallace Wattles
Contribution
"As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Contribution
"A veces sentimos que lo que hacemos es tan solo una gota en el mar, pero el mar sería menos si le faltara una gota."
- Mother Teresa
Contribution