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Building a Bridge to Somewhere

Posted on October 14, 2008

We built a really inefficient environment with the greatest efficiency ever known to man. -- Andy Karsner, Asst Sec for Energy and Efficiency and Renewable Energy at Department of Energy, as quoted in Tom Friedman's Hot, Flat and CrowdedDriving our economy and our nation forward requires that we glance in the rear-view mirror to take stock of where we've been, and Karsner's words regarding our land-development practices sum it up well. Our infrastructure development was not the product of laissez-faire; policy was the engine that got us here.And where are we, exactly? We're in a nation where...

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