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The Economy: Stealing The Future, Selling it In The Present, and Calling It GDP

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In this TED talk from last month, futurist Alex Steffen shares a vision of the way our cities offer the key to addressing climate change. Cities, Steffen says, can help save the future while offering us a much-improved quality of life.

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Future-Ready Cities: Why The Capacity and Willingness to Change Trump Everything

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“Cities Adapt Or They Go Away”

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Climate change quote of the day:

“Climate change is happening in both real and dramatic ways, but also in slow, pervasive ways. We can handle it, but we do need to acknowledge it. We are on a 50-year cycle, but we need to get going.”

Aaron Durnbaugh, Deputy Commissioner, Chicago’s Department of Environment

(New York Times: “A City Prepares For a Warm Long-term Forecast“)