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Time to Think Small: How Nimble Environmental Technologies Can Solve the Planet’s Biggest Problems

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      Featuring
      Todd Myers
      Todd Myers

      Director, Center for the Environment, Washington Policy Center

      Jonathan H. Adler cropped
      Jonathan H. Adler

      Professor of Law and Director, Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law, Case Western Reserve University

      Does the future of environmental stewardship depend more on innovation or regulation? In Time to Think Small, Todd Myers argues that protecting the planet requires small, decentralized technologies, like smartphone apps, rather than sweeping top-down government programs. The book explores how these brand-new approaches are already helping to win some of the most important environmental struggles humanity faces, including fighting climate change, combating pollution in drinking water, protecting endangered animals, and keeping plastic out of the oceans. Personal technologies are transforming how we address environmental challenges by enhancing the power of individuals to conserve nature. This tremendous power is not only growing but also has the benefit of being independent of shifts in political leadership. And while governments act slowly, lightly regulated companies and nonprofits are comparatively nimble innovators in a marketplace of ideas. Can human ingenuity and free enterprise sidestep political gridlock, diplomatic friction, and bureaucracy to create solutions to our most pressing environmental problems?

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      Time to Think Small: How Nimble Environmental Technologies Can Solve the Planets Biggest Problems

      Personal technologies are creating what the Environmental Defense Fund calls “a transformational shift” in how we address environmental problems. Time to Think Small explores how these brand-new approaches are already playing a huge role in winning some of the most difficult and important environmental struggles of our day–from fighting climate change, to ensuring drinkable water for everyone, to saving endangered animals, to keeping plastic out of the ocean.