This website is about my interests, including sustainability, climate protection, green business, local currency, urban planning and more. I am hoping to use it to archive the projects I have worked on, and some of my writings.
In general, I’m concerned with saving the world from ecological destruction while improving quality of life. I think we’re smart enough to solve the problems, but there are obstacles and challenges to be overcome in order to be successful. I focus on the economic and political challenges.
In the early 2000s I began blogging on Huffington Post. Around 2018 I moved my blog to the website of the Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability (FEASTA). The link to my archive is here: https://www.feasta.org/author/mike-sandler/ Check it out!
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