There is no such thing as garbage, just useful stuff in the wrong place.

Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor.

Cities generate most of the global economy, and most of its energy use, resource demands and climate emissions. How we build cities over the next decades will largely determine whether we can deliver a bright green future.

Cabbies in particular seem to like discussing the fate the Earth.

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 if we're ready to think differently, but we do have to make that jump and start to do things in new ways.

Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get any better. In fact, these days, cynicism is obedience.

There is no such thing as garbage, just useful stuff in the wrong place.