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Todd Myers
Climate action is in our hands with tech that encourages small steps
Much of the discussion about addressing climate change — and other environmental issues — focuses on top-down government policy. This approach, however, isn’t working for climate change for several reasons. What we need is people across the globe using environmental technologies to take millions of small actions to solve the planet’s biggest environmental problems.
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