"There are a lot of different ways of……" — 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 is possible and more practical to talk about rebuilding systems to use much less energy than it is to think about trying to meet greater demands of energy through clean energy alone."
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Alex Steffen
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37 Quotes by Alex Steffen
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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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