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McGee Young

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A new start. A familiar battle.

Apr 11, 2016

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We’re all in this Together

Introducing MeterHero Communities

Oct 27, 2015

Oct 27, 2015

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Sustainable Water and Energy

MeterHero — as a concept — wants to challenge conventional notions around sustainability. We want to create a new framework for valuing…

Aug 25, 2015

Aug 25, 2015

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Conservation, Climate Change, and the Future

As we confront the fact that we’ve long since surpassed greenhouse gas concentrations that will irrevocably change the climate, we have to…

May 26, 2015

Conservation, Climate Change, and the Future

May 26, 2015

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Conservation, Climate Change and the Future of Earth Day

Forty-five years ago, environmentalists celebrated the first Earth Day, inspired by the promise of ecological problem solving as a social…

Apr 22, 2015

Conservation, Climate Change and the Future of Earth Day

Apr 22, 2015

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The Value in Conservation

To value conservation, in our society, is to put a price on it. What is it worth to a community to make water available to its residents…

Mar 20, 2015

Mar 20, 2015

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Is it time to hit reset on conservation policy?

California is preparing to tackle its fourth straight year of drought. Are we going to move beyond 1970s policy?

Mar 19, 2015

Is it time to hit reset on conservation policy?

Mar 19, 2015

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Why the production of conservation will solve the water crisis

California is a year away from running out of water. Yet, my water bill is more or less the same as what I would have paid four years ago…

Mar 19, 2015

Why the production of conservation will solve the water crisis

Mar 19, 2015

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We have a water crisis because we don’t have a way to value water

Water is difficult to value because the value of water is highly context dependent…

Mar 17, 2015

We have a water crisis because we don’t have a way to value water

Mar 17, 2015

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Price is the most important factor in the California water crisis, and not for the reason you think

Aside from the lack of rain, price seems to be the primary culprit in driving California into water debt. As in, water is laughably cheap…

Mar 16, 2015

Price is the most important factor in the California water crisis, and not for the reason you think

Mar 16, 2015