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How Building Small Means Living Large

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December 7, 2015

In Alan Durning’s keynote address at the 2015 Build Small, Live Large conference at Portland State University last month, Sightline Institute director Alan Durning discussed how living small has not only been normal until very recently but is still normal for the vast majority of the globe.

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Margaret Morales

Margaret Morales was a senior researcher for Sightline Institute. She earned her master’s from the University of British Columbia’s Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability, where she was a Bridge Fellow focusing on issues of public health and the environment. There her research examined wastewater and biosolids management in British Columbia and Latin America. She received her Bachelor’s degree from Duke University in Environmental Science and Policy, and English. She also holds a certificate in Documentary Video from Duke and worked as a documentary filmmaker for non-profits in the United States, Canada, and Latin America. Her work has screened in multiple film festivals.

In her free time Margaret enjoys cooking, reading novels, and working on her photography.

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