#ironmen

We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment. ↗

— John McDonald

#been #capacity #create #desirable #endowed

In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#air pollution #been #coastal #cut #dramatically

This Bush administration has a growing credibility gap, maybe even a credibility chasm, on environmental policy. The President has lost the trust of the American people when it comes to the environment. ↗

— Jim Jeffords

#american #american people #bush #bush administration #chasm

House passage is good news for the Northwest corner and our environment. ↗

— Nancy L. Johnson

#environment #good #good news #house #news

Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#butcher #complete #environment #growing #growing up

An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#any #being #change #deal #each

Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#any #areas #attraction #cannot #complex

But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#around #authority #best #bottom-up #central

Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#each #environment #most #organism #organisms

Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#change #each #environment #system #trying