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We don't need a War on Carbon. We need a new prosperity that can be shared by all while still respecting a multitude of real ecological limits -... →
In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.
The denser places get, the lower the amount of energy people use to get around it.
The most climate friendly trip we are ever going to take is the trip we never had to take because we were close to what we wanted.
It's not that hard to imagine the natural world recovering it's health in our absence: it's more difficult, and more necessary, to... →
Make no mistake: Tackling climate change is vital. But to see everything through the lens of short-term CO2 reductions, letting our obsession with... →
The idea that we are going to be able to take our entire society as it currently works and simply change the source of energy and make it sustainable... →
Cities are responsible for the vast majority of the creation of the economy. They're also places into which we pour the vast majority of... →
For most people, using the Internet broadens their sense of who 'we' is and actually ends up leaving us in a place of greater compassion and... →
If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.
More is not better. Better is better. You don't need a bigger house; you need a different floor plan. You don't need more stuff; you need... →
There's no law of physics that says we have to be an unsustainable society - in fact, quite the opposite. The planet's ready to work with us... →
We unfortunately already live on a planet where the climate has changed and will continue to change no matter what we do now. We're playing a... →
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