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Last week I had the privilege of hearing Dr. Beth Sawin of www.ClimateInteractive.org give her most recent presentation of the Climate Change simulator she’s co-created with partners Drew Jones and Tom Fiddamin. I’ve known Beth for many years and have deep respect for her professional brilliance and personal integrity.

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January 14, 2009

Dear President-Elect Obama,

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Aug 14, 2008
Outlaws of Nature

In 15 years of private sector work in sustainability, I was
often asked by company executives, “What’s the business case?” Meaning, prove
the profitability of going green. How will this increase shareholder value? What’s
the impact on Wall Street? Like so many colleagues, I struggled to come up with
an answer that was analytically and financially sound. I failed.

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From my book, The Necessary Revolution:

All of the brilliant technologies, inspired products and creative business models described in this book are absolutely essential to the Necessary Revolution of our time. And they are not sufficient.

To restore balance and vitality to the biosphere, we have to re-conceive our relationship to Nature. As biologist Janine Benyus says, "We must fall in love with the earth again."

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This morning, I wake groggy at 4 AM after a late night of work, and a restless sleep. Fearing my dog, who was gasping for breath all night, has finally succumbed to the lung cancer that he’s suffered from for 10 months. My husband away on business. What would I tell the kids who love him like a big brother? How would I get his 70 pound body down the stairs? Is the ground too frozen for burial? Afraid to look I'm relieved to find his soul still embodied, his heart still beating, his tail still wagging to my touch.

Lone adult "on" this AM, I race through the morning rituals.

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