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If we're talking about transportation, the best thing a city can do is densify as quickly as it can. That needs to be said every time this issue comes up, because it's the only universal strategy that works.
~ Alex Steffen
About
Because
Best
City
Every
Every Time
Issue
Needs
Only
Quickly
Said
Strategy
Talking
Thing
Time
Transportation
Universal
Up
Works
design
copy
In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.
~ Alex Steffen
Able
Almost
Almost All
America
Block
Change
City
Governments
Group
People
Small
Small Group
Want
Who
design
copy
In tough times, some of us see protecting the climate as a luxury, but that's an outdated 20th-century worldview from a time when we thought industrialization was the end goal, waste was growth, and wealth meant a thick haze of air pollution.
~ Alex Steffen
Air
Air Pollution
Climate
End
Goal
Growth
Haze
Industrialization
Luxury
Meant
Outdated
Pollution
Protecting
See
Some
Thick
Thought
Time
Times
Tough
Tough Times
Us
Waste
Wealth
Worldview
design
copy
It is very possible to have lives that are just as prosperous, and nicer, that use 5 percent of the fossil fuels and virgin materials we do now. But if we're living anything like the average McMansion-ite, SUV-driving suburbanites, there's simply no way that can be powered in a climate-friendly way.
~ Alex Steffen
Anything
Average
Fossil
Fossil Fuels
Fuels
Just
Like
Lives
Living
Materials
Nicer
Now
Percent
Possible
Powered
Prosperous
Simply
Use
Very
Way
design
copy
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
Absence
Difficult
Hard
Health
Imagine
More
Natural
Natural World
Necessary
Our
Presence
Recovering
World
design
copy
Make no mistake: Tackling climate change is vital. But to see everything through the lens of short-term CO2 reductions, letting our obsession with carbon blind us to the bigger picture, is to court catastrophe.
~ Alex Steffen
Bigger
Bigger Picture
Blind
Carbon
Catastrophe
Change
Climate
Climate Change
CO2
Court
Everything
Lens
Letting
Make
Make No Mistake
Mistake
Obsession
Our
Picture
Reductions
See
Short-Term
Tackling
Through
Us
Vital
design
copy
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
Actually
Better
Bigger
Different
Floor
House
More
Need
Plan
Stuff
Use
You
design
copy
One of the most unfortunate side effects of the urban activism of the '60s and '70s is the belief that development is wrong and that fighting it makes you an environmentalist.
~ Alex Steffen
Activism
Belief
Development
Effects
Environmentalist
Fighting
Makes
Most
Side
Unfortunate
Urban
Wrong
You
design
copy
People - especially the geeks who created it - have tended to look at the Internet as something that's hermetically sealed: there's the Internet and the rest of the world. But that's not how people want to use the Internet. They want to use it as a way of better navigating the real world.
~ Alex Steffen
Better
Created
Geeks
How
Internet
Look
People
Real
Real World
Rest
Sealed
Something
The Real World
Use
Want
Way
Who
World
design
copy
Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor.
~ Alex Steffen
Bloom
Commercially
Driven
Had
Interest
Like
Mother
Mother Teresa
Poor
Saying
Tech
design
copy
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
Barriers
Biggest
Biggest Thing
Building
Cities
Development
Doing
Doing Good
Get
Good
Growing
Long
Minimize
Need
Permitted
Quickly
Someone
Thing
design
copy
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
Almost
Bit
Brutal
Cheap
Decline
Easily
Every
Fix
Just
Know
Less
Likely
More
Much
Nothing
Reality
Stop
Suburbs
Them
Unsustainable
Way
Will
design
copy
The denser places get, the lower the amount of energy people use to get around it.
~ Alex Steffen
Amount
Around
Energy
Get
Lower
People
Places
Use
design
copy
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
Able
Actually
Change
Currently
Energy
Entire
Going
Idea
Make
Our
Reality
Simply
Society
Source
Sustainable
Take
Works
design
copy
The Internet has made some phenomenal breakthroughs that are still only poorly understood in terms of changing people's ideas of us and them. If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.
~ Alex Steffen
Breakthroughs
Bunker
Car
Changing
Create
Does
Ideas
Internet
Isolation
Long
Made
Mass
Mass Media
Media
Mentality
Only
Opposite
People
Phenomenal
Poorly
Social
Some
Still
Suburbs
Terms
Them
Understood
Us
design
copy
The most climate friendly trip we are ever going to take is the trip we never had to take because we were close to what we wanted.
~ Alex Steffen
Because
Climate
Close
Ever
Friendly
Going
Had
Most
Never
Take
Trip
Wanted
Were
design
copy
The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected - it's one big problem, which is that the way we're doing things can't go on.
~ Alex Steffen
Big
Big Problem
Biggest
Conflict
Decline
Disease
Doing
Environmental
Forth
Global
Go
Interconnected
Planet
Poverty
Problem
Problems
Really
Sustainability
Things
Way
Which
design
copy
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
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
design
copy
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
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
design
copy
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
Better
Cities
Economic
Economic Opportunity
Emissions
Evidence
Find
Frankly
Hard
Healthier
Live
Lot
More
Need
Opportunity
Ourselves
Push
Quo
Secure
Settle
Shows
Status
Status Quo
Than
design
copy
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