'The hallmark of those companies and countries that continually thrive is that they continually reinvent themselves,' noted David Rothkopf, and energy expert and visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment.  'We reinvented ourselves as a continental industrial power in the nineteenth century, and we reinvented ourselves as a global industrial power in the twentieth century and then as a global information society in the twenty-first century.'  Now we have to - for our own sake and the world's - reinvent ourselves one more time.  Making America the world's greenest country is not a selfless act of charity or naive moral indulgence.  It is now a core national security and economic interest.

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