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If people are given the opportunity to really make a difference in their own lives, their own communities, their own businesses and their own governments, then we can really transform the prospects of life on this planet. We can find ourselves living in a world that is more like the world that I think most of us want to be living in.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Businesses Communities Difference Find Given Governments Life Like Lives Living Make Make A Difference More Most Opportunity Ourselves Own People Planet Prospects Really Then Think Transform Us Want World I Think

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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 imagine it recovering its health in our presence.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Absence Difficult Hard Health Imagine More Natural Natural World Necessary Our Presence Recovering World

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

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Discussing Earth Fate Like Particular Seem

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The brutal reality is that newer, more sprawling suburbs - and especially the cheap boom-years exburbs - aren't just a bit unsustainable, they're ruinously unsustainable in almost every way, and nothing we know of will likely stop their decline, much less fix them easily.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Almost Bit Brutal Cheap Decline Easily Every Fix Just Know Less Likely More Much Nothing Reality Stop Suburbs Them Unsustainable Way Will

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I'm fascinated with design. I realized early that I had no talent in that direction, but I love talking with architects and designers about what they do. I appreciate applied creativity as a source of pleasure and meaning.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: About Applied Appreciate Architects Creativity Design Designers Direction Early Fascinated Had Love Meaning No Talent Pleasure Realized Source Talent Talking I Love

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Americans trash the planet not because we're evil, but because the industrial systems we've devised leave no other choice. Our ranch houses and high-rises, factories and farms, freeways and power plants were conceived before we had a clue how the planet works.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: American Because Before Choice Clue Conceived Evil Factories Farms Had Houses How Industrial Leave Other Our Planet Plants Power Ranch Systems Trash Were Works

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More is not better. Better is better. You don't need a bigger house; you need a different floor plan. You don't need more stuff; you need stuff you'll actually use.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Actually Better Bigger Different Floor House More Need Plan Stuff Use You

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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.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Air Animal Clean Clean Air Diversity Dividends Earth Even Extend Human Human Race Long May Mineral Our Pay Plant Predictable Race Resources Soil Species Stay Survives Water Weather Will

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There's no really rosy scenario ahead, where climate change just doesn't happen, but I believe we don't have the ethical right to throw our hands up in the air and say, 'Game over.' Whatever pathway we choose, our descendants will be dealing with that reality for centuries to come.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Air Believe Centuries Change Choose Climate Climate Change Come Dealing Descendants Ethical Game Hands Happen Just Our Over Pathway Reality Really Right Rosy Say Scenario Throw Up Whatever Where Will I Believe Ahead

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There's a lot of evidence that shows that if we push as hard as we need to for net-zero emissions, we'll find ourselves with cities that are more secure, healthier, and have more economic opportunity - are frankly better cities to live in - than if we settle for the status quo.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Better Cities Economic Emissions Evidence Find Frankly Hard Healthier Live Lot More Need Opportunity Ourselves Push Quo Secure Settle Shows Status Status Quo Than

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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