The Fix-It Engineer Who Digs Up Data To Fix The Planet
When Samantha Reese moved from snowy Montana to bikini-clad Los Angeles, California, her classmates at the California Institute of Technology had one big question about her rural upbringing.Photo from Sam Reese, NREL; graphic by Tara Smith, NREL.
But when Reese grew up and left home, she left that fix-it world and found one obsessed with replacement. As the country’s economy took off and prices dropped, most people chose to throw broken things away and buy new ones. But over time, that quick fix—which comes with fast and dirty manufacturing and swelling landfills—started to fracture the planet.
When you started college at the California Institute of Technology, what was it like moving from rural Montana to Los Angeles?
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