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In other words, what are the costs of doing business as usual?

If you drill water to make coke near a village farm, that's not illegal, but yes, it costs the community.

When we measure corporate performances, we don't include our impacts on nature and what our business costs society.

So in fact, the price of timber in the Beijing marketplace ought to have been three-times what it was had it reflected the true pain and the costs to the society within China.

You can try to manipulate your fate, like this person is doing, but it costs you something to do it.

I would cut my costs by 90 percent.

And if it costs even a dime to police a user, that will crush a service with a hundred million users.

But in fact, what we're seeing more and more is that if you are willing to cut, get rid of those extraneous redundant options, well there's an increase in sales, there's a lowering of costs, there is an improvement of the choosing experience.

A game with full visibility of the costs and environmental impact of each new attribute you add.

Each item, be it a wall, a solar battery or even an armchair, contains all of the information for the system to calculate costs, environmental impact and even a happiness tally for the player.

This is made possible because today, with design for manufacture and assembly, which uses light gauge steel frame construction, shipped and assembled on-site, we can decrease construction costs by 20 percent and environmental waste by 15 percent, saving time, money and keeping tons of waste out of landfills.

The power in modular construction is that you can build year-round with confidence in your costs, in your quality, and in your delivery date, in your build date.

So I weigh the costs against the risks and sometimes the safety of my family comes before my own authenticity.

And we also must understand that by giving a child a computer, we're also transferring costs, very high costs, such as internet connection, electricity, maintenance, software, updates.

Parents typically get two years of investing dollars, calories and so many other resources in them, so that by the time the second born comes along, the firstborn is already ... it's what corporations call "sunk costs," you don't want to disinvest in this one and launch the R&D on the new product.

We call animal control, it just costs a lot of money.

It is made in America, it is a trivially low-carbon footprint to create, curbside recyclable, costs about 4,000 dollars to create, and it is dishwasher-safe.

We all know that clean energy products, technologies, tend to be characterized by higher upfront costs, but very low operating costs.

And so in the industrialized world, we have very generous subsidies that are specifically designed to bring down those upfront costs.

You need to know that the average patent troll defense costs two million dollars and takes 18 months when you win.

A kilometer of this costs a tenth of a subway.

So if you're a software engineer and you're trying to think about whether to add some new functionality to your program, it's important to think about how much it costs.

But they also have rising costs to our security, economy, health and environment that are starting to erode, if not outweigh their benefits.

Oil costs our economy two billion dollars a day, plus another four billion dollars a day in hidden economic and military costs, raising its total cost to over a sixth of GDP.

Saving or displacing barrels for 25 bucks rather than buying them for over a hundred, adds up to a $4 trillion net saving counting all the hidden costs at zero.

Of course, it also shrinks the pumping equipment and its capital costs.

In fact, these solar power module costs have just fallen off the bottom of the chart.

But I think there's another debate to be asked, which is the level of control we have over our tax money, that what costs us 10 pounds in one context can be a curse; what costs us 10 pounds in a different context, we may actually welcome.

The British government, for example, has acknowledged that the optimism bias can make individuals more likely to underestimate the costs and durations of projects.

Now, my obsession ended up driving me to create full-size prototypes in my own backyard — (Laughter) — and actually spending my own personal savings on everything from tooling to patents and a variety of other costs, but in the end I ended up with this modular housing system that can react to any situation or disaster.

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