YES! Magazine, February 12, 2012
The United States isn’t broke, as some Republican say; we’re a very wealthy and productive country. The problem is that our wealth and productivity gains flow disproportionately to the rich in the form of dividends, capital gains, rent and interest. If we want to remain a middle class nation, that needs to change.
Scientific American, December 1, 2008
Cap and dividend would unite Americans in the fight against climate change in a way that no other policy would — as citizens who are all co-owners and caretakers of the air.
US News & World Report, June 16, 2008
You divvy it up. One person, one share. Wired to your bank account like Social Security.
Washington DC, September 18, 2008
I COME BEFORE this committee to discuss cap and dividend, a climate policy that is simple, fair, effective and market-based. Cap and dividend allows us to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to the levels scientists are calling for, while protecting the incomes and purchasing power of American families.
Common Dreams.org, March 23, 2007
FOR YEARS we’ve heard the bad news about global warming. What we haven’t heard is the good news: we’ll earn an enormous cash windfall if we fight global warming the right way.
OnTheCommons.org, 2003
ALL AMERICANS are joint owners of a trove of hidden assets. These assets — natural gifts like air and water, and social creations like science and the Internet — constitute our shared inheritance. The trouble is, our common wealth — and our children’s — is being squandered.
State of the Commons 2003
The American Prospect, November 16, 2001
THE ALASKA Permanent Fund hasn’t attracted much attention in the Lower 48—but it should. For citizens of all states are about to inherit another gift of nature worth trillions of dollars. And hardly anyone is talking about it.
Los Angeles Times, March 13, 1995
SOME POLITICIANS say that ending welfare will improve the character of those who depend on it—make them think twice about having kids, getting divorced or just being lazy.
The Nation, February 7, 1994
IF YOU THINK creating enough well-paying jobs to retain America’s current living standard is challenging, it’s child’s play compared to what Paul Hawken says we must do next: convert to an economy that sustains rather than destroys the earth.
Business and Society Review, Summer 1989
TO BE ETHICAL as a business because it may increase your profits is to do so for entirely the wrong reason. The ethical business must be ethical because it wants to be ethical.
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