Alex Steffen Quotes

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• We get so little news about the developing world that we often forget that there are literally millions of people out there struggling to change…
• We have to craft new political realities, not only in places like India, Afghanistan, Kenya, Pakistan, but here at home as well. Another world is…
• By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we're setting ourselves up not to solve it.
• 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' bumper…
• Urban retrofitting: creating different sorts of spaces and uses out of places that are already there.
• It's not just enough to survive. We've got to make something better than what we've got.
• Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get any…
• There is no such thing as garbage, just useful stuff in the wrong place.
• To be young and aware is to know you’re being lied to; to know that a bright green future is possible; to know that we…
• Powerful people doing bad things LIKE cynical, despairing citizens.
• There's more to being an environmentalist than occasionally signing an online petition and mailing your check to the Sierra Club. Really the most effective environmental…
• Carbon zero simply means that the emissions you are releasing either are zero or balance out to zero.
• Copenhagen has done a remarkable job creating streets that are focused on bicycles and pedestrians.
• In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.
• At its very heart, Worldchanging is about using the best of people's new ideas, bringing them together and applying them to the massive problems that…
• 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,…
• Deep walkability describes a city that is built in such a way that you can move from one area to another on foot, on bicycle,…
• For most people, using the Internet broadens their sense of who 'we' is and actually ends up leaving us in a place of greater compassion…
• 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 factor…
• I think we're going to start to see a new model of civic advocacy where people get together once in a while to protest, but…

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