I had a vision in 1965. The things that came together in my mind at that point were the human problems we were facing and the principles of ecology that guided literally everything on earth. Ecology is in large measure the study of how populations obtain and use energy effectively. That means energy from the sun through their food supplies. And because humans had divorced themselves in some large measure from the influence of solar energy by tapping into fossil energy resources, we have been able to violate some of these basic principles of ecology for a period of time, for a century or so, and that, by and large, they have led us into some really unfortunate consequences. The idea here is — what do you really do to try to bring the carbon cycle back into balance? It occurred to me that we need to begin the apply the principles of ecology to the way that we manage our agricultural systems and to the way that we make industrial processes.
—- Denis Hayes, organizer of the first Earth Day, 1970.
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