For carbon-neutral cities, there are things worth talking about in how our consumption patterns can change - sharing goods, etc. - but… — 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
