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will get what they want, but in the process they will catalyze a global economic reformation on a scale never seen, changing our lives, changing their lives, changing the earth.

In the future, hothouses on most farms will not run on hot compost, but on passive solar heating that keeps warm water flowing through pipes buried beneath the greenhouse.

The Department of Energy says there exists 135,000 megawatts of opportunities in

There are more than twice as many garbage trucks, 179,000, in the United States as there are urban transit buses. These refuse-hauling monsters get an average of 2.8 miles per gallon. 7 Garbage trucks move at an average speed of 10 mph, an incredibly inefficient pace for a combustion engine, but one that’s necessary because of the garbage truck’s

As a result, these companies spent only $11 billion on exploration in 2007, while spending $58 billion on share buybacks, five times what they spent on exploration.

The power of localized generation is enormous. The reason is simple: Heat doesn’t travel well.

“Each one of these farms will specialize in something. One might be tomatoes, one might be peppers, I’m sure several of them would grow all sorts of greens.”

Fuller and others see a movement to grow produce through the winter in so-called hothouses—greenhouses that can be easily assembled and temperature managed so that produce growing in the Upper Midwest and Northeast can persevere all year