Civilization’s shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems.

A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.

All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

The technology of synthetic biology is currently accelerating at four times the rate of Moore's Law. It's been doing that since 2005, and it's likely to continue.

Carbon tax has the advantage of basically being able to subsidize one set of activities that you want with another set of activities that you don't want. It's like a cigarette tax.

Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and an environmental disaster.