Alex Steffen Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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.”

“When the Internet really first started to hit, people felt this would be the death blow: after suburbs and long commutes and television and the death of the family dinner, this would be the last straw that would totally break society.”

“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.”

“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.”

“We already have many of the technologies and tools that we need to build a sustainable future. What we don't have is a new way of thinking, and that's really the hardest part.”

“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.”

“Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor.”

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

“Carbon zero simply means that the emissions you are releasing either are zero or balance out to zero.”

“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.”