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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
American
Because
Before
Choice
Clue
Conceived
Evil
Factories
Farms
Had
Houses
How
Industrial
Leave
Other
Our
Planet
Plants
Power
Power Plants
Ranch
Systems
Trash
Were
Works
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At its very heart, Worldchanging is about using the best of people's new ideas, bringing them together and applying them to the massive problems that we all face.
~ Alex Steffen
About
Applying
Best
Bringing
Face
Heart
Ideas
Massive
New
New Ideas
People
Problems
Them
Together
Using
Very
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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
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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Cabbies in particular seem to like discussing the fate the Earth.
~ Alex Steffen
Discussing
Earth
Fate
Like
Particular
Seem
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Carbon zero simply means that the emissions you are releasing either are zero or balance out to zero.
~ Alex Steffen
Balance
Carbon
Either
Emissions
Means
Out
Releasing
Simply
You
Zero
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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
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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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
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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copy
Cities offer us powerful leverage on our most stubborn, wasteful practices. Long commutes in our cars, big power bills from our energy-hogging buildings, shopping trips to buy stuff that'll spend a few short months in our homes and long centuries in our landfills.
~ Alex Steffen
Big
Bills
Buildings
Buy
Car
Centuries
Cities
Few
Homes
Leverage
Long
Months
Most
Offer
Our
Power
Powerful
Practices
Shopping
Short
Spend
Stubborn
Stuff
Trips
Us
Wasteful
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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
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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copy
Climate change is not a discrete issue; it's a symptom of larger problems. Fundamentally, our society as currently designed has no future. We're chewing up the planet so fast, in so many different ways, that we could solve the climate problem tomorrow and still find that environmental collapse is imminent.
~ Alex Steffen
Change
Chewing
Climate
Climate Change
Collapse
Could
Currently
Designed
Different
Different Ways
Environmental
Fast
Find
Fundamentally
Future
Imminent
Issue
Larger
Many
No Future
Our
Planet
Problem
Problems
So Many Different Ways
Society
Solve
Still
Symptom
Tomorrow
Up
Ways
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Copenhagen has done a remarkable job creating streets that are focused on bicycles and pedestrians.
~ Alex Steffen
Copenhagen
Creating
Done
Focused
Job
Pedestrian
Remarkable
Streets
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Deep walkability describes a city that is built in such a way that you can move from one area to another on foot, on bicycle, on transit and have an experience that remains a pleasant one, that you feel you are welcome not just in the neighborhood but moving between neighborhoods.
~ Alex Steffen
Another
Area
Between
Bicycle
Built
City
Deep
Experience
Feel
Foot
Just
Move
Moving
Neighborhood
Neighborhoods
One Area
Pleasant
Remains
Such A Way
Transit
Way
Welcome
You
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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
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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For most people, using the Internet broadens their sense of who 'we' is and actually ends up leaving us in a place of greater compassion and understanding. It leaves us more connected to a larger group of people and more at one with a lot more people in our community.
~ Alex Steffen
Actually
Community
Compassion
Connected
Ends
Greater
Group
Internet
Larger
Leaves
Leaving
Lot
More
More People
Most
Our
Our Community
People
Place
Sense
Understanding
Up
Us
Using
Who
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I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.
~ Alex Steffen
Change
Factor
Gap
Generation
Generation Gap
Gigantic
How
How Much
I Think
Important
Internet
Much
People
Social
Social Change
Technology
Terms
Think
Understand
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copy
I think we're going to start to see a new model of civic advocacy where people get together once in a while to protest, but it's more about an ongoing, sustained engagement in issues, networks and communities about which people care.
~ Alex Steffen
About
Advocacy
Care
Civic
Communities
Engagement
Get
Get Together
Going
I Think
Issues
Model
More
Networks
New
Once
Ongoing
People
Protest
See
Start
Sustained
Think
Together
Where
Which
While
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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
About
Applied
Appreciate
Architects
Creativity
Design
Designers
Direction
Early
Fascinated
Had
I Love
Love
Meaning
No Talent
Pleasure
Realized
Source
Talent
Talking
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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
Bunker
Car
Create
Does
Internet
Isolation
Long
Mass
Mass Media
Media
Mentality
Opposite
Social
Suburbs
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If nothing else, the Internet allows people to put their ideas out there and let the world decide whether they're worth paying attention to.
~ Alex Steffen
Attention
Decide
Else
Ideas
Internet
Nothing
Out
Paying
People
Put
Whether
World
Worth
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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
Businesses
Communities
Difference
Find
Given
Governments
I Think
Life
Like
Lives
Living
Make
Make A Difference
More
Most
Opportunity
Ourselves
Own
People
Planet
Prospects
Really
Then
Think
Transform
Us
Want
World
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