"The idea that we are going to be……" — Alex Steffen
"The idea that we are going to be able to take our entire society as it currently works and simply change the source of energy and make it sustainable is not actually congruent with reality."
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37 Quotes by Alex Steffen
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We get so little news about the developing world that we often forget that there are literally millions of people…
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We have to craft new political realities, not only in places like India, Afghanistan, Kenya, Pakistan, but here at home…
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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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You don't change the world by hiding in the woods, wearing a hair shirt, or buying indulgences in the form…
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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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There's more to being an environmentalist than occasionally signing an online petition and mailing your check to the Sierra Club.…
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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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