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We managed to put the fossil fuel business out of business - and with it went the logic of centralized control, replaced by a world where power came locally, and everything else (from local food to local democracy) followed more or less naturally...

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A picture of the Intervale in my home state of Vermont, a wonderful community farm. This is a picture of gardens at Burlington's North End Intervale. In the background, the McNeil Generating Station burns wood to create electricity. Lance Micklus (c) 2002

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Bill McKibben

Bill McKibben is a writer and journalist. His books include The End of Nature (1989), Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age (2004) and Wandering Home (2005). He is the founder of the climate movement 350.org and the Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College.

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