It would be nice if all that exuberance and abundance was connected to a deep ethos of planetary responsibility.

The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.

Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.

So when you see a regulation against lead, because lead is a bad in a regulators mind, what does that mean? You are not telling us what is good, you are just tell us what you don't want, not what you do want.

We are not a green standard, we are a quality standard. We're different, we're multi dimensional.

Carbon in your body - that's good thing. In a tree, it's good. In the atmosphere, it's a bad. Nature wants to sequester carbon in biota. And when we burn it, we release it. It's the wrong system.

The problem carbon is that everyone thinks we have an energy problem, we don't. We have plenty of energy. We have a carbon problem. Carbon is a material, so we have a material problem, not an energy problem.