Robin Chase, Founder of ZipCar and MIT-trained scientist, on transportation and communication networks.

It is a far greater challenge to have and to be without, to open the hands, than it is to live without and be without. The river of life sees scarcity, and through those eyes, the hands that claim a prize reluctantly release. The fingers must be pried apart. Spiritually it is the greater challenge. “It is harder for a wealthy man to enter the kingdom of heaven…”.

As a nation, or in the western industrialized world, we are faced with an environmental and physical challenge, for which we receive very little support. Our comfort is not support, but the challenge itself. The visionaries, like Robin Chase, blend the black and white, and create rainbows. And we, in community, can reach for color instead of gray, can learn the art of sharing our lives, and in so doing create opportunity for living more lightly, where before only solitary struggle existed.