"Cities are responsible for the vast majority of……" — 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 resources, the vast majority of energy and the places where a huge percentage of the decisions about how systems are built and how products designed, etc., happen."
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Alex Steffen
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37 Quotes by Alex Steffen
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By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we're setting ourselves up not to solve it.
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Urban retrofitting: creating different sorts of spaces and uses out of places that are already there.
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It's not just enough to survive. We've got to make something better than what we've got.
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Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing…
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There is no such thing as garbage, just useful stuff in the wrong place.
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To be young and aware is to know you’re being lied to; to know that a bright green future is…
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Powerful people doing bad things LIKE cynical, despairing citizens.
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Carbon zero simply means that the emissions you are releasing either are zero or balance out to zero.
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