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Roman Mars sustainability Sustainabilities.

Sustainabilities.

Well, I think for a lot of people,

sustainability is an abstract thing,

and as such, it's hard to sort of engage on it

in the emotional level that's really needed to push things forward.

We want to inspire people

rather than creating guilt trips or making them look at numbers.

Sustainability is something that can be powerful and experiential and impact your life.

My name is Anton Willis. I'm a designer and part of a

studio called Civil Twilight. Civil Twilight's flagship project is Lunar

Resident Street Lights. These are streetlights that sense and respond to ambient moonlight.

So they dim and brighten in response to the lunar cycle.

When the moon is full, they dimmed down to save energy.

It's both a way of saving energy and creating a new urban connection to the cycle of the moon.

The project won the 2007 Metropolis Next Generation Design Competition partly because it took

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