“Forget about having an identity crisis and get some identity capital. … Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that's an investment in who you might want to be next.”
“We have a choice to make during our brief visit to this beautiful blue and green living planet: to hurt it or to help it.”
— Ray Anderson
Ray Anderson: The business logic of sustainability
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“I’m haunted by the thought of what Ray Anderson calls ‘tomorrow’s child,’ asking why we didn’t do something on our watch to save sharks and bluefin tuna and squids and coral reefs and the living ocean while there still was time. Well, now is that time.”
— Sylvia Earle
Sylvia Earle's TED Prize wish to protect our oceans
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