In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change. — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
What makes creative people tingle are interesting problems, the chance to impress their friends, and caffeine. — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
The denser places get, the lower the amount of energy people use to get around it. — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
We get so little news about the developing world that we often forget that there are literally millions of people out there… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
Our cities need to change, fast. Tactical Urbanism is a guided tour of solutions created when local people decide they can't wait… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
At its very heart, Worldchanging is about using the best of people's new ideas, bringing them together and applying them to the… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
I think we're going to start to see a new model of civic advocacy where people get together once in a while… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
If nothing else, the Internet allows people to put their ideas out there and let the world decide whether they're worth paying… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
When the Internet really first started to hit, people felt this would be the death blow: after suburbs and long commutes and… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
If people are given the opportunity to really make a difference in their own lives, their own communities, their own businesses and… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
The Internet has made some phenomenal breakthroughs that are still only poorly understood in terms of changing people's ideas of us and… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
We're not going to persuade people in the developing world to go without, but neither can we afford a planet on which… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
For most people, using the Internet broadens their sense of who 'we' is and actually ends up leaving us in a place… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
People - especially the geeks who created it - have tended to look at the Internet as something that's hermetically sealed: there's… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
There are plenty of people out there talking about how difficult it is for some of us to just deal with all… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite. — Alex Steffen Copy Share
By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we're setting ourselves up not to solve it. — Alex Steffen Copy Share
Cities generate most of the global economy, and most of its energy use, resource demands and climate emissions. How we build cities over the… — Alex Steffen Copy Share
You don't change the world by hiding in the woods, wearing a hair shirt, or buying indulgences in the form of 'Save the Earth'… — Alex Steffen Copy Share
There are a lot of different ways of building a prosperous society, and some of them use much less energy than others. And it… — Alex Steffen Copy Share
The brutal reality is that newer, more sprawling suburbs - and especially the cheap boom-years exburbs - aren't just a bit unsustainable, they're ruinously… — Alex Steffen Copy Share
Cities are responsible for the vast majority of the creation of the economy. They're also places into which we pour the vast majority of… — Alex Steffen Copy Share
It's not that hard to imagine the natural world recovering it's health in our absence: it's more difficult, and more necessary, to imagine it… — Alex Steffen Copy Share
There's no law of physics that says we have to be an unsustainable society - in fact, quite the opposite. The planet's ready to… — Alex Steffen Copy Share
We don't know yet how to build a society which is environmentally sustainable, which is shareable with everybody on the planet, which promotes stability… — Alex Steffen Copy Share
I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important… — Alex Steffen Copy Share
Climate change is not a discrete issue; it's a symptom of larger problems. Fundamentally, our society as currently designed has no future. We're chewing… — Alex Steffen Copy Share
We have to craft new political realities, not only in places like India, Afghanistan, Kenya, Pakistan, but here at home as well. Another world… — Alex Steffen Copy Share
It is very possible to have lives that are just as prosperous, and nicer, that use 5 percent of the fossil fuels and virgin… — Alex Steffen Copy Share
