AlterNet: We desperately need a new way of thinking, a new mind-set. The thinking that got us into this bind will not get us out. When Elizabeth Kolbert, a writer for the New Yorker, asked energy guru Amory Lovins about thinking outside the box, Lovins responded: “There is no box.” There is no box. That is the mind-set we need if civilization is to survive. It’s not news that Lester Brown is warning about our unsustainable approach to feeding the planet. But it is news that Scientific …