Steve Hallett - Community Quotes

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We should stop subsidizing the fossil-fuel industries and instead provide subsidies for local and community energy projects.

Steve Hallett

The tragedy of the commons, explained by Garrett Hardin... shows how nonfunctional communities can rapidly destroy their own resource base.... how good, rational people can form destructive communities.... Instead of protecting their long-term future by conserving resources, they protect their short-term gains by competing, deplete their resources to the point of collapse, and bring about the failure of the community.... again and again...

Steve Hallett

America does not have to rely on vast volumes of oil and natural gas to make food.... It has to get smarter. Dedicated, hard-working, ethical, and ingenious farmers... show us it can be done.... Another very promising trend in many countries is the reemergence of urban agriculture, community gardens, and backyard gardens.

Steve Hallett