I think people love nature after they experience it. I know I experienced it as a young man - I took a lot of hikes, I was involved in scouting.

As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.

I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.

I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!

To build a power plant and run lines to houses, to huts, to anything is a tremendous amount of work...how about...just giving them the service where they need it-on the roof of their hut.

What we often fail to recognize is how efficient a vegan diet is. Less land, less water, more food for our spiraling population.

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