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

Powerful people doing bad things LIKE cynical, despairing citizens.

Cities are responsible for the vast majority of the creation of the economy. They're also places into which we pour the vast majority of resources, the vast majority of energy and the places where a huge percentage of the decisions about how systems are built and how products designed, etc., happen.

If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.

Urban retrofitting: creating different sorts of spaces and uses out of places that are already there.

By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we're setting ourselves up not to solve it.

We have to craft new political realities, not only in places like India, Afghanistan, Kenya, Pakistan, but here at home as well. Another world is possible.