She was an early adopter of renewable energy technologies, supported our earliest wind energy efforts (in the mid-70's!), and was generally a rebel.  She was living with a passive solar architect from someplace Scaninavian.  I remember being scared to death watching from our motel window, after we'd shared a bowl or two, as her minders sat in their car out on the street (at least in my mind).

One of my chief mentors in early windpower, Paul Montagu Sturges, a classmate of David's at Harvard, thought the Rockefellers were the greatest danger to future civilization.  He considered it a great coup when we installed a Clivus Multrum on our passive house by a mountain stream where we couldn't get permits for a waste system, but with the Clivus we got it built.  Paul and Abby invited Pete Seeger to sing at the opening, sound system set up on the rocks surrounding the stream.

I haven't spoken with Abby over the years, but i'd bet she's still fighting.  And she's a daughter, not a granddaughter, so she's even closer to her father and his policies.

Abby, if you're out there, let's make a ceremony for old times sake, and perhaps the future.  Bet you'd be proud of what i've done.

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