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, t…

- Alex Steffen

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 thin…

- Alex Steffen

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 dec…

- Alex Steffen

By fundamentally changing how we design the places and systems that enable our daily lives, we can slash emissions way beyond the immediate carbon sa…

- Alex Steffen

In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.

- Alex Steffen

Clean air and water, a diversity of animal and plant species, soil and mineral resources, and predictable weather are annuities that will pay dividen…

- Alex Steffen

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

- Alex Steffen

The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're …

- Alex Steffen

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 d…

- Alex Steffen