Creativity in Cold Climates October 6, 2017 Lindsy Halleckson Originally published November 27, 2016 “The vital favor that determines social patterns, human preoccupations, and economic customs of those dwelling in different geographic environments depends on how cold it gets, not on how hot... The people who live in the colder areas are not more inventive— they simply have many more environment-caused occasions in which to employ all humans’ innate inventiveness.” — Buckminster Fuller