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The biggest thing growing cities need to do is minimize barriers to development so that as long as someone is doing good urbanism, they can get permitted quickly and get building quickly.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Barriers Biggest Biggest Thing Building Cities Development Doing Doing Good Get Good Growing Long Minimize Need Permitted Quickly Someone Thing

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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

Topics: About Also Built Cities Creation Decisions Designed Economy Energy Etc Happen How Huge Majority Percentage Places Pour Products Resources Responsible Systems Vast Vast Majority Where Which

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Carbon zero simply means that the emissions you are releasing either are zero or balance out to zero.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Balance Carbon Either Emissions Means Out Releasing Simply You Zero

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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.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: About Actions Building Buildings Change Choose Cities Consumption Energy Etc Fraction Goods Green How Impacts Important Important Things Most Need Our Patterns Priority Provide Sharing Talking The Most Important Things Those Transit Transportation Use Worth

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We don't know yet how to build a society which is environmentally sustainable, which is shareable with everybody on the planet, which promotes stability and democracy and human rights, and which is achievable in the time-frame necessary to make it through the challenges we face.

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Topics: Achieve Build Challenges Democracy Environmentally Everybody Face How Human Human Rights Know Make Necessary Planet Rights Society Stability Sustainable Through Which

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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.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: About Change Change Things Corrupt Democratic Developing Developing World Fairer Forget Freer Get Less Literally Little Millions Millions Of People More News Often Out People Struggling Things World

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The idea that we are going to be able to take our entire society as it currently works and simply change the source of energy and make it sustainable is not actually congruent with reality.

~Alex Steffen

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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.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: About Alone Building Clean Clean Energy Demands Different Different Ways Energy Greater Less Lot Meet More Much Others Possible Practical Prosperous Rebuilding Society Some Systems Talk Than Them Think Through Trying Use Ways

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There are plenty of people out there talking about how difficult it is for some of us to just deal with all the stuff we already have, from packed closets that need organizers to storage spaces to maintenance costs, etc. Lots of people are reevaluating whether or not they need giant garages full of stuff and finding that they don't.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: About Closets Costs Deal Difficult Etc Finding Full Giant How Just Lots Maintenance Need Out Packed People Plenty Some Spaces Storage Stuff Talking Us Whether

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We unfortunately already live on a planet where the climate has changed and will continue to change no matter what we do now. We're playing a game of making the problem less bad rather than preventing it.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Bad Change Changed Climate Continue Game Less Live Making Matter Now Planet Playing Preventing Problem Rather Than Unfortunately Where Will

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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