“No one quite believed that they would actually, seriously close a state park, let alone 100 of them. We were shocked. Then angry. We decided we had to mobilize because we don't have a Legislature or a governor who is taking this seriously. We had to get involved.”
Mercury News
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“In Moscow's center, only 5 percent of historic structures are still intact. The authorities declare their intent is not to do damage, but it's enough to walk around downtown Moscow to see that there are no effective instruments of control and no guarantee that the law will be followed. The only aim of development appears to be to satisfy the greed of developers.”
The Christian Science Monitor
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“We cannot let society’s current, almost hypnotic attraction to big, high-tech ventures overshadow the fact that simple, inexpensive, and hands-on solutions are already in our grasp. It is not an overstatement to say that our environmental and economic future may depend on passing this obscure section in the climate bill, Section 201. It’s time for our elected leaders to buckle down and make the right decision.”
The Architect’s Newspaper
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“The real question … is how do we achieve this new sustainable world? I think that there are two very different paths to being sustainable. The dichotomy is that of socialist versus survivalist sustainability. In other words, do we nationalize and centralize sustainable policies or do we individualize and decentralize them? Do we regulate societal norms or do we incentivize them?”
ArchNewsNow
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