Naturally Interesting

In the Oregonian:

That movement — dispersed, diverse, leaderless, independent and incongruous in its assembly of anarchists, billionaires, street clowns and computer geeks — began, Hawken said in a phone interview, “when people looked around to see an insult to their property, their river, their forest, their future, their children or their dignity.

“Then they looked around for an institution to do something about it . . . and they find out government is corrupt. It’s either bought off or it doesn’t have the skills.

“That’s how the nonprofit world was formed. It’s not a well-oiled machine. But it’s the fastest growing movement in the world, the largest social movement in the history of humanity, and the one addressing the salient issues of our times.”

“Specifically, the shared activity of hundreds of thousands of nonprofit organizations can be seen as humanity’s immune response to toxins like political corruption, economic disease and ecological degradation.”