The sky's the limit: The demanding gifts of 2012

Its victories also capture what a lot of our greenest gifts look like: nothing. The regions that weren't fracked, the coal plants that didn't open, the mountaintops that weren't blasted by mining corporations, the children who didn't getasthma or mercury poisoning from coal emissions, the carbon that stayed in the Earth and never made it into the atmosphere. The Keystone XL tar sands pipeline bringing the dirtiest of dirty energy from Canada to the Gulf Coast might have already opened without the activists who ringedthe White House and committed themselves across the continent.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/12/2012122683729621427.html