How slums can save the planet

*If you're gonna drink from the pure clean stream that is Favela Chic, you might as well accept it from the Maestro, no less a man than Stewart Brand:

http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2010/01/how-slums-can-save-the-planet/

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