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As technology keeps improving, the price of oil keeps rising, and the ice keeps melting, Arctic energy is bound to be an increasingly bigger part of the global mix.

~Alex Shoumatoff

Topics: Arctic Bigger Bound Energy Global Ice Improving Increasingly Keeps Melting Mix Oil Part Price Rising Technology

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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.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Bright Build Cities Climate Decades Deliver Demands Determine Economy Emissions Energy Future Generate Global Global Economy Green How Largely Most Next Over Resource Use Whether Will

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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.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Because Beyond Carbon Changing Consumed Daily Daily Lives Design Emissions Enable Energy Far Fundamentally How Iceberg Immediate Just Lives Our Own Personal Places Resources Savings Slash Systems Tip Vast View Way

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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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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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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

Topics: Able Actually Change Currently Energy Entire Going Idea Make Our Reality Simply Society Source Sustainable Take Works

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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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The denser places get, the lower the amount of energy people use to get around it.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Amount Around Energy Get Lower People Places Use

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My ultimate goal is to create operating systems for myself that allow me to think as little as possible about the silly decisions you can make all day long - like what to eat or where we should meet - so I can focus on making real decisions. Because mental energy is a finite quantity.

~Alexa Von Tobel

Topics: About All Day Allow Because Create Day Decisions Eat Energy Finite Focus Goal Like Little Long Make Making Me Meet Mental Myself Operating Possible Quantity Real Should Silly Systems Think Ultimate Ultimate Goal Where You I Can

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I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.

~Alexander Payne

Topics: Degree Energy Filmmaker Needs Some Still Which Youth

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