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It's hardly surprising that the corporate aliens lie when it comes to the relationship between doing something about climate change and the economy.

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The oil dinosaurs want to win so badly in my home state because what happens here matters everywhere. The nation often follows where California goes.

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I walk wherever my errands take me.

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As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering path through everything I was already interested in - gender politics, public space and urban life, demonstrations and parades and marches. The relationship between walking and thinking and between the mind and the body.

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Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it as doing something, and the something closest to doing nothing is walking.

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For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two places. But to walk, you're some place that's already interesting. You're not just between places. Things are happening.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: June 11th, 1961

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