I was surprised and humbled to be included among 100 or so thinkers whom leading sustainability publication Worldchanging asked the following question just prior to Obama's historic presidential victory:
In 100 words or less, what should the next president do in his first 100 days to address the planet’s most pressing problems?
My two cents?
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