Alternatives Quote by Alex Steffen

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

By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we're setting ourselves up not to solve it.

— Alex Steffen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cabbies in particular seem to like discussing the fate the Earth.

— Alex Steffen

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