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  • Some of the homes that have been built in the last 10 years just appall me. Why do humans need huge homes? I was born poor and I didn’t know you bought clothes at anything but the Goodwill until I went to college. Some of our mentality about what it means to have a good life is, I think, not going to help us in the next 50 years. We have to think through how to choose a meaningful life where we’re helping one another in ways that really help the Earth.

    "Elinor Ostrom Wins Nobel for Common(s) Sense". Interview with Fran Korten, www.yesmagazine.org. February 26, 2010.