Herb Simmens has had a varied and distinguished career planning for the future of our communities and society. He was the county administrator in Atlantic County, New Jersey when casinos were first legalized, a town manager of two New Jersey communities, and served as Executive Director of the New Jersey State Planning Commission for a decade. In that role he led the effort to create New Jersey’s award winning long term smart growth plan.
"Our consciousness, ethics, and politics are made of words. New names and phrases sharpen our ability to understand phenomena we were already experiencing: this is science. New words also help to focus our new feelings of danger and beauty: this is poetry.
This book is a science poem. It is an act of cognitive mapping, a great clarification, an inspiration, a prophecy, a utopian science fiction novel, and a spur in the butt. We can create a good anthropocene and this book helps us to understand how. Also: hilarious. Dive in and see.
— Kim Stanley Robinson,
Author of The Ministry for the Future