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When asked to introduce himself, Dan Sturges calls himself a “45-year-old male human.” We prefer to call him a former car designer for General Motors, current president of IntraGo, and all-around expert on community-improving transportation. Either way, he’s got something to say about robots, space balconies, and going carless in Boulder, CO.
What was your green tipping point?
When I was a student at Art Center College of Design in 1985, I began to focus on the exciting opportunities for new classes of small personal vehicles that were appropriate for a developing economy such as China. Then I read the book Small is Beautiful in 1988 and that sealed the deal.
What’s your favorite eco item in your closet?
My Nike Considered shoes by designer Steve MacDonald.
Who's your green superhero?
[Inventor and visionary] Bucky Fuller.
"I'd like to be able to visit a giant robot village."
What has been your biggest lifestyle change?
Switching to my “above car” lifestyle when we moved to moderate-density Boulder, CO. That means we are a one-car family … I get by using the Internet (to reach more destinations virtually), Boulder’s public transit, a rudimentary car-sharing service located nearby, an electric bike for local mobility, and I live across the street from my office.
What’s on your wish list?
I’d like to be able to visit a giant robot village and be carried about by the large bot like a kid again.
Dan Sturges
Sustainable Transportation Expert
If you could snap your fingers and create a green product or service that doesn’t exist yet, what would it be?
The transportation system for the boneless people on the spaceship in Wall-E. If all our car drivers were using such a system, the world would be much better.
What keeps you up at night?
I sleep pretty well.
What’s your not-so-green guilty pleasure?
Using a hair dryer in the morning at times to look pretty, and dipping my body in a hot tub/spa.
"It's time to create a space balcony around the earth."
If you had five minutes in the Oval Office, what would you say?
I’d say it’s time to create a “space balcony” around the earth, like a Saturn ring, but where the world’s population can visit and gaze at the planet as if looking at a big mountain from a ski resort deck on a beautiful day. Of course we could only do this virtually, but I’d ask people when they look at earth to think of how we can make this planet we live on a better home for all of us.
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Mike Norvell - 08/29/08
See you on the space balcony Dan!
