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Alex Steffen Quotes

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 can reimagine the world, rebuild our cities, redesign our lives, retool our factories, distribute innovation and creativity and all live in a world that is not only better than the alternative, but much better than the world we have now Picture Quote #1

The denser places get, the lower the amount of energy people use to get around it Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

It’s not just enough to survive. We’ve got to make something better than what we’ve got Picture Quote #1

Urban retrofitting: creating different sorts of spaces and uses out of places that are already there Picture Quote #1

By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we’re setting ourselves up not to solve it Picture Quote #1

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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 things to be fairer, freer, more democratic, less corrupt Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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, the vast majority of energy and the places where a huge percentage of the decisions about how systems are built and how products designed, etc., happen Picture Quote #1

Carbon zero simply means that the emissions you are releasing either are zero or balance out to zero Picture Quote #1

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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 possible; to know that we can reimagine the world, rebuild our cities, redesign our lives, retool our factories, distribute innovation and creativity and all live in a world that is not only better than the alternative, but much better than the world we have now (Alex Steffen Quotes) The denser places get, the lower the amount of energy people use to get around it (Alex Steffen Quotes) 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 (Alex Steffen Quotes) It’s not just enough to survive. We’ve got to make something better than what we’ve got (Alex Steffen Quotes) Urban retrofitting: creating different sorts of spaces and uses out of places that are already there (Alex Steffen Quotes) By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we’re setting ourselves up not to solve it (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 (Alex Steffen Quotes) 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 (Alex Steffen Quotes) 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, the vast majority of energy and the places where a huge percentage of the decisions about how systems are built and how products designed, etc., happen (Alex Steffen Quotes) Carbon zero simply means that the emissions you are releasing either are zero or balance out to zero (Alex Steffen Quotes)

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