To be young and aware is to know you’re being lied to; to know that a bright green future is possible; to know that we can reimagine the world, rebuild our cities, redesign our lives, retool our factories, distribute innovation and creativity and all live in a world that is not only better than the alternative, but much better than the world we have now.

In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.

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.

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.

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

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

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