Alex Steffen

If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the…

— 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…

— 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…

— Alex Steffen

There are a lot of different ways of building a prosperous society, and some of them use much less energy than others.…

— Alex Steffen

The brutal reality is that newer, more sprawling suburbs - and especially the cheap boom-years exburbs - aren't just a bit unsustainable,…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Alex Steffen

Climate change is not a discrete issue; it's a symptom of larger problems. Fundamentally, our society as currently designed has no future.…

— Alex Steffen

We have to craft new political realities, not only in places like India, Afghanistan, Kenya, Pakistan, but here at home as well.…

— Alex Steffen

It is very possible to have lives that are just as prosperous, and nicer, that use 5 percent of the fossil fuels…

— Alex Steffen

Copenhagen has done a remarkable job creating streets that are focused on bicycles and pedestrians.

— Alex Steffen

The idea that we are going to be able to take our entire society as it currently works and simply change the…

— Alex Steffen

Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor.

— Alex Steffen

The biggest thing growing cities need to do is minimize barriers to development so that as long as someone is doing good…

— Alex Steffen

We unfortunately already live on a planet where the climate has changed and will continue to change no matter what we do…

— Alex Steffen

There are plenty of people out there talking about how difficult it is for some of us to just deal with all…

— Alex Steffen

Clean air and water, a diversity of animal and plant species, soil and mineral resources, and predictable weather are annuities that will…

— Alex Steffen

Cities offer us powerful leverage on our most stubborn, wasteful practices. Long commutes in our cars, big power bills from our energy-hogging…

— Alex Steffen

There's more to being an environmentalist than occasionally signing an online petition and mailing your check to the Sierra Club. Really the…

— Alex Steffen

Our cities need to change, fast. Tactical Urbanism is a guided tour of solutions created when local people decide they can't wait…

— Alex Steffen