Alex Steffen Quotes

• 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 things to be fairer, freer, more democratic, less corrupt.

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  Struggle, People, News

  "The route to a sustainable future". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2005.

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• 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, on transit and have an experience that remains a pleasant one, that you feel you are welcome not just in the neighborhood but moving between neighborhoods.

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  Moving, Cities, Feet

  "Alex Steffen on Carbon-Zero Cities". Interview with Theresa Riley, billmoyers.com. March 19, 2013.

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• 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 better. In fact, these days, cynicism is obedience.

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  Thinking, Optimism, Political

  "The Bright Green City". Interview with Arnie Cooper, www.thesunmagazine.org. April 2010.

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• Ser joven y consciente es saber que te están mintiendo; saber que un futuro verde y brillante es posible; saber que podemos reimaginar el mundo, reconstruir nuestras ciudades, rediseñar nuestras vidas, reequipar nuestras fábricas, distribuir innovación y creatividad y vivir todos en un mundo que no sólo es mejor que la alternativa, sino mucho mejor que el mundo que tenemos ahora.

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  Creativity, Cities, Innovation

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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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  Energy, Climate, Generations

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• The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected - it's one big problem, which is that the way we're doing things can't go on.

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  Environmental, Goes On, Disease

  CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. March 11, 2008.

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• Urban retrofitting: creating different sorts of spaces and uses out of places that are already there.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Creating

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• There is no such thing as garbage, just useful stuff in the wrong place.

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  Stuff, Garbage

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• Powerful people doing bad things LIKE cynical, despairing citizens.

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  Powerful, People, Cynical

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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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  Zero, Mean, Balance

  "Alex Steffen on Carbon-Zero Cities". Interview with Theresa Riley, billmoyers.com. March 19, 2013.

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• There's no law of physics that says we have to be an unsustainable society - in fact, quite the opposite. The planet's ready to work with us if we're ready to think differently, but we do have to make that jump and start to do things in new ways.

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  Thinking, Law, Opposites

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• 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 it's more about an ongoing, sustained engagement in issues, networks and communities about which people care.

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  Pensamiento, Cuestiones, Personas

  "Is the Internet the future of community?". The CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. March 11, 2008.

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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 of 'Save the Earth' bumper stickers. You do it by articulating a vision for the future and pursuing it with all the ingenuity humanity can muster.

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  Inspirational, Hair, Humanity

  "The Next Green Revolution" by Alex Steffen, www.wired.com. May 1, 2006.

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• Clean air and water, a diversity of animal and plant species, soil and mineral resources, and predictable weather are annuities that will pay dividends for as long as the human race survives – and may even extend our stay on Earth.

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  Animal, Race, Air

  "The Next Green Revolution" by Alex Steffen, www.wired.com. May 1, 2006.

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• Cities generate most of the global economy, and most of its energy use, resource demands and climate emissions. How we build cities over the next decades will largely determine whether we can deliver a bright green future.

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  Cities, Energy, Climate

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• 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 in social change.

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  Tecnología, Pensamiento, Personas

  Interview, edition.cnn.com. March 11, 2008.

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• 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 possible.

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  Home, Reality, Political

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

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  Mother, Poor, Driven

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• Cabbies in particular seem to like discussing the fate the Earth.

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  Fate, Earth, Particular

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• Cities offer us powerful leverage on our most stubborn, wasteful practices. Long commutes in our cars, big power bills from our energy-hogging buildings, shopping trips to buy stuff that'll spend a few short months in our homes and long centuries in our landfills.

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  Powerful, Home, Practice

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• By fundamentally changing how we design the places and systems that enable our daily lives, we can slash emissions way beyond the immediate carbon savings - because our own personal emissions are just the tip of a vast iceberg of energy and resources consumed far from our view.

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  Views, Design, Energy

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• Our cities need to change, fast. Tactical Urbanism is a guided tour of solutions created when local people decide they can't wait for politics to catch up before they improve their neighborhoods. This weathervane book deserves a place on any urbanist's bookshelf.

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  Book, Cities, People

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• For carbon-neutral cities, there are things worth talking about in how our consumption patterns can change - sharing goods, etc. - but those are a fraction of the impacts of transportation and building energy use. If we need to choose priority actions, the most important things are to densify, provide transit, and green the buildings.

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  Talking, Cities, Impact

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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. Really the most effective environmental actions you can take have to do with crafting your home and surroundings, your workplace decisions and your investment habits.

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  Work, Home, Decision

  "On green building, urban development, and reviving rural America". Interview with David Roberts, grist.org. September 1, 2005.

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• No basta con sobrevivir. Tenemos que hacer algo mejor que lo que tenemos.

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  Enough, Something Better

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