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 Image
The Internet has made some phenomenal breakthroughs that are still only poorly understood in terms of changing people's ideas of us and them. If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker… — 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 Image
By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we're setting ourselves up not to solve it. — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
