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• Don't get me wrong: I love nuclear energy! It's just that I prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that…
• In the end, the question is not, how do we use nature to serve our interests? It's how can we use humans…
• We celebrate the cherry tree not for its efficiency but for its effectiveness - and for its beauty. Its materials are in…
• You don't filter smokestacks or water. Instead, you put the filter in your head and design the problem out of existence.
• Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place
• If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels…
• The eco-effective future of industry is a world of abundance that celebrates the use and consumption of products and materials that are,…
• We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy,…
• How do we love all the children of all species for all time?
• Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be…
• Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture,'
• We see a world of abundance, not limits. In the midst of a great deal of talk about reducing the human ecological…

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