Monkeys Are Made of Chocolate

by Jack Ewing

One was Paul Hawken’s The Ecology of Commerce and the other was my own Ishmael.

David Brower, former president of the Sierra Club, said in his book Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run: “In the years since the Industrial Revolution, we humans have been partying pretty hard. We’ve ransacked most of the Earth for resources. A small part of the world’s population wound up with some nice goodies, but now we’re eating the seed corn. We are living off the natural capital of the planet, the principal, and not the interest. The soil, the seas, the forests, the rivers, and the protective atmospheric cover—all are being depleted. It was a grand binge, but the hangover is now upon us, and it will soon be throbbing.”

Paul Hawken, author of The Ecology of Commerce.

When the plantation was fourteen years old, we bought a portable saw mill.

www.minae.go.cr/estrategia. Protecting our biodiversity is the best thing we can do to

You could start with the two books mentioned in this article. World Watch Magazine is an excellent bimonthly with a wealth of information. Also from World Watch is the annual report entitled State of the World. This is available from the Web site www.worldwatch.org. I want to leave you with a final thought from Paul Hawken, author of The Ecology of Commerce: “Underlying all ecological science is the inevitable