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Net Positive World

Looking Around the Corner to Greater Challenges and Opportunities

We stand now where two roads diverge. But they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road—the one less traveled by—offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

—Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring

When you set a big goal—running a marathon, writing a book, or mastering a new language—it’s exciting, but daunting. There are painful ...

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