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• We get so little news about the developing world that we often forget that there are literally millions of people out there…
• We have to craft new political realities, not only in places like India, Afghanistan, Kenya, Pakistan, but here at home as well.…
• By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we're setting ourselves up not to solve it.
• You don't change the world by hiding in the woods, wearing a hair shirt, or buying indulgences in the form of 'Save…
• Urban retrofitting: creating different sorts of spaces and uses out of places that are already there.
• It's not just enough to survive. We've got to make something better than what we've got.
• Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going…
• There is no such thing as garbage, just useful stuff in the wrong place.
• To be young and aware is to know you’re being lied to; to know that a bright green future is possible; to…
• Powerful people doing bad things LIKE cynical, despairing citizens.
• There's more to being an environmentalist than occasionally signing an online petition and mailing your check to the Sierra Club. Really the…
• Carbon zero simply means that the emissions you are releasing either are zero or balance out to zero.

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