Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future

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Posted on September 22, 2008

This article was written by Alex Steffen in August 2007. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. If we want to build a bright green future, we need to know the actual nature of the problems we face. In terms of climate change, this may be less simple than some might have us believe. In the past few weeks, I've come across three concepts that illuminate unexpected angles of the climate crisis (and thus perhaps open the way to unexpected thinking about solutions).The first is the idea that the emissions for which we're responsible -- our personal carbon foot...

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