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AlexSteffen(+) "[Informal] repair manuals (which appear to be reverse engineered) are available, written in Hindi, English+ Chinese" http://bit.ly/cGQjaM
6 hours ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) The importance of "meso-facts" - slow-changing but evolving big picture trends: http://bit.ly/caAlXV
6 hours ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) What makes a good future place, and where would you live if you could live anywhere? http://bit.ly/dD8NQJ
9 hours ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Hey folks: Are you anticipating big changes when you choose where to live? http://bit.ly/dD8NQJ Drop by+ share ideas! (please RT)
9 hours ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) @cascio(+) Well, I think that... Hey, let's go outside and ride bikes!
10 hours ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Expert generalists in nature: http://bit.ly/cdjcuj
10 hours ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) We're #1!! Yeah baby! Oh, wait. What a boring ranking. Nevermind. @Richard_Florida(+) Cities That Save You the Most Time http://tiny.cc/VH6Xz
10 hours ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Expert generalists are critical. Funding/capital comes in silos, tho; thus damn hard to fund interdisciplinary (much less holistic) projects
10 hours ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Maybe what we most need are "X" shaped people, expert generalists able to connect meaningfully across fields+ explore new solution spaces...
10 hours ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Others think we need more "V" shaped people, who know one thing deeply, but also know the fundamental questions of the related fields.
10 hours ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Some people think we need more "T" shaped people: folks who know one thing deeply but can collaborate with anyone.
10 hours ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) "the Sierra Club Board has made a firm commitment to be a solutions-oriented organization" http://bit.ly/dcFYlG excellent
11 hours ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Were I 20, I'd think srsly about 2050 when choosing where to live +look for civic signs of rugged adaptation to discontinuities.
12 hours ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Most city strategic plans I know of take BAU for granted for the next 20-40 years; don't know any that plan meaningfully beyond that.
12 hours ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Does anyone know of a city that plans for potential discontinuities, other than short-term emergency planning? Like, in the decades range?
12 hours ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) What is future advocacy now if not warnings about a set of connected potential discontinuities? Not sustainable= not continued.
12 hours ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) When I look ahead I see lots of potentially massive discontinuities. These are poorly built into existing models.
12 hours ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) What we measure well now is almost certainly not the best way to define the boundaries of the possible, let alone anticipate the unexpected.
12 hours ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) It's a little disturbing how often the answer to why a forecast is modeled a certain way is "that's what we have data for"
12 hours ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Why carbon neutrality is an opportunity for cities, and many of its costs can actually be investments: http://bit.ly/a9b2Kx
1 day ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Another bed in the garden ready for planting. Still looking for good moderate sun/semi-shade crops. Did potatoes last year. Suggestions?
1 day ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) I never tire of the small miracle of food scraps composting into soil.
1 day ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) How the IPCC is soft-pedaling climate impacts: "sealevelgate" http://bit.ly/9kkdV3
1 day ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) "My Other Car is a Bright Green City" continues to be popular, widely quoted: http://bit.ly/81oJZ1 (tho' it could use an update)
1 day ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Future of shopping+ "creative infill" newly hot w/ commercial real estate crash: http://bit.ly/pfuD1 http://bit.ly/RObFR
1 day ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Weirdly, this transition towns piece continues to generate controversy and response: http://bit.ly/15UyVd
1 day ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Rumble strip bike lanes, architectural visions in video, mapping food and saving the planet with slums: http://bit.ly/aeamE9
2 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Just realized my coffee (organic, shade-grown, community supportive+ fairly traded) is a better person than I am. (No wonder it's $1000/lb.)
2 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Not that I think journalists can't become story enablers; but seems to often mean in practice "fire the reporter, put up a comment board"
2 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) @Richard_Florida(+) That's a bunch of Canadians about to lose a bunch of money. Prices are down for a reason.
2 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Certainly the CW. I don't see it being done well. @jeffjarvis(+) doesn't know if journalists are story tellers anymore, rather story enablers.
2 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) The Wages of Sin are a really good time. Sweaty, beer-splashed but clear-headed, whistling sea shanties, bouncing all the way home.
2 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Like 41,000,000 other Americans, some of my ancestors were part of the Irish Diaspora. It's my ethnic duty to go hear sea shanties tonight.
2 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) I think this is my favorite story so far this month: They Unpaved Paradise and Put Up a Park http://bit.ly/cglbeL
2 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Why cops should essentially never get in car chases: they kill more bystanders than the crooks will http://bit.ly/b4kbys
2 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Postownership on the road! @Mickipedia(+) Just completed my first out of town @NeighborGoods(+) transaction! Borrowed a bike for #SXSW!
2 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Quite possibly the only time I'll refer you to the Am. Enterprise Inst. @ccoletta(+) The High Cost of Ignoring Beauty http://bit.ly/8rhenn
2 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Can't wait to see vid of @zephoria(+) #sxswi talk: "social uncanny valley" hits square on my thinking re: tech, cities + postownership
3 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) French noir mystery last night, detective finds critical clue b/c of irregularities in the order in which the dishes were served. French!
3 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) What radical solutions are possible for outer-ring suburbs headed into the Permanent Foreclosure? http://bit.ly/burbia
3 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) @drgrist(+) @alexismadrigal(+) @JesseJenkins(+) @bryanrwalsh(+) rebound effect also vastly over-rated, solvable w/ rising energy fees, even if rebated.
4 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Oh, please. We share at least a dozen readers @drgrist(+) Nothing like starting day w/ a series of reminders that nobody's reading what I write
4 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) 1.5 M yrs is not that far away, but I'm worrying about other things today @bruces(+) Dwarf Star to Smash Into Solar System http://is.gd/alpGF
4 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Satellites show 100+ ft rogue waves near-daily occurrences in mid ocean: may explain 200 cargo ships lost each year http://bit.ly/doMxI7
4 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) @anya1anya(+) Anybody want to get lunch? #sxsw | Me! Oh, crap, right: still in Seattle. Have some TexMex in my honor...
4 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) RT @wortldchanging(+) nominated for best environmental culture blog http://bit.ly/b0zCjl @Treehugger(+)
4 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) 520, Columbia River Crossing transit advocates and Tunnel opponents/surface option supporters should form a combined lobby in Olympia.
4 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Okay, I think I like BBC's Life on Mars. Dumb, but fun.
4 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) The entire point of the climate "debate" is not truth-finding, it's delay. Delay= vast profits. Can't "win" that debate.
4 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) The climate debate: Scientists: "fact" Denialists: "lie" S: "but, fact!" D: "see, controversy!" S: "okay, we'll look again" Planet- "ugh"
4 days ago from web

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