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AlexSteffen(+) Gritty Tacoma's leading green urbanism: http://bit.ly/azPCLs
4 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Maybe, until West Antarctic Ice Sheet breaks up/ Greenland melts/ hurricanes intensify @Richard_Florida(+) Miami's the next great global city
4 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Police "exhibit a pronounced pro-driver bias" in cases where drivers hit pedestrians. http://bit.ly/1kqMTC How to change?
5 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Folks, I'm for urban gardens, edible landscapes, etc. Just don't think urban farming is a) always a good use of land b) a major food answer
5 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) All this said, N. American cities have plenty of wasted space in parking lots and roads that could become parks, plazas and gardens...
5 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) And yes, some urban farming ideas require much MORE energy to grow food than a regional farm would. Problem w/ vertical farming, 4 instance
5 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Farms+ forests for the fringe, buildings+ parks for the core. Put stuff where it makes the most sense in terms of planning, energy use+ $
5 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Urban farming has lots of cultural benefits, of course; in small doses a wonderful thing; but highest best use for urban land is development
5 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) I'm not at all convinced that urban farming (as opposed to regional farmland preservation) is a smart way to protect a city's foodshed.
5 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) RT @bruces(+) *That Amy Wallace story is aces on what it's like to annoy a militant wingnut smart-mob. http://bit.ly/9xMBOF
5 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) The argument for moving the CDC to Seattle: http://bit.ly/aDaOWZ
5 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) In US politics, climate's a win-lose fight, not a win-win negotiation. We can only delay that fight to our disadvantage+ future's loss.
1 week ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Other unfortunate thing: no political compromise to be found, since opponents don't actually care if we torch planet, only if they lose $
1 week ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Unfortunate thing about climate: unlike near every other issue, speed+ amount of action required are absolute, not politically negotiable
1 week ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Obama administration violates its climate campaign commitment... again. @kate_sheppard(+) http://bit.ly/c8ztgD
1 week ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) @jbacon(+) They're wrong.
1 week ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Why popularity contest funding sucks: @Mickipedia(+) Why I Stopped Asking You to Vote for NeighborGoods in Pepsi Refresh http://huff.to/dz4OLD
1 week ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Great intv with Kristina Hill on cities, climate adaptation+ smart investments http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/011527.html
1 week ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) About to do a debate with Derrick Jensen about the future of the planet for Orion magazine.
1 week ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Jane McGonigal's Gameful: A New Secret HQ for Worldchanging Games http://bit.ly/cZYq3C
2 weeks ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Bright green cities need trending-towards-zero-impact economies, systemic ruggedization and cultures of rapid innovation.
2 weeks ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Surrealism: gaps between our economy+ planetary reality widen; catastrophe risks grow; lack of catastrophe used as argument for inaction
2 weeks ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) "Task for national and regional leaders is to develop a set of contingency plans for possible climate shocks..." http://nyti.ms/aWVrJd
2 weeks ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) "I guess [a planetary catastrophe] will happen; but then things might surprise us and go on just as they are." -Gary Snyder
2 weeks ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Has postconsumerism (like countercultural rebellion before it) been captured as a means of marketing consumer goods?
2 weeks ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Voluntary simplicity advocates as "stunt consumers" - is getting rid of stuff just another way of consuming it? http://bit.ly/czVbD8
2 weeks ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Finally having time to think about the importance of having time to think.
2 weeks ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) "Kill the tunnel." Blistering editorial from Seattle's leading social services advocate: http://bit.ly/bwHb9E
2 weeks ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Living near transit lengthens your life: http://bit.ly/cB5UFd Fewer car-related deaths, better fitness on average, etc.
2 weeks ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) From Long Now folks: “The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.”– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
2 weeks ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Got a two-page proposal for a worldchanging idea in water, sanitation, health? Gates Fdn is ready to give you $100K http://bit.ly/coH77Z
2 weeks ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) The Facebook panopticon, FB1984? @brady(+) wow, FB friends can check you in [Places]. that's crazy. I hope there's a privacy setting
2 weeks ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) @drgrist(+) Um, mistake in ur story? Power use in hot-water washing from hot water *heating* AND washer operation. Study's right, I think...
2 weeks ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Geoengineering, he essentially argues, is Fascism's answer to the climate crisis: planetary action as war. http://bit.ly/aVnkYa
2 weeks ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) If u think global democratic will to meet achievable GHG neutrality is impossible, why be optimistic re: geoengineering governance?
2 weeks ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) "'geo-engineers' tend to overlook unintended consequences [in] actual but imperfectly understood interactions of geophysical systems"
2 weeks ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) "It should go without saying... the good intentions of 'geoengineers' provide nothing in the way of assurance that outcomes will be good"
2 weeks ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) "loose talk about human ingenuity and innovation and can-do know-how w/ splashy artist renderings of futurological mega-scale technofixes"
2 weeks ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) More on the political rhetoric of the "necessity" of "geoengineering": http://bit.ly/9L46K8 http://bit.ly/aVnkYa
2 weeks ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Study: Americans vastly overestimate small steps' energy savings, underestimate value of efficiency investments http://bit.ly/cMS0JD
2 weeks ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) If we fail to move the levers of regulation, finance, policy, planning+ design for sustainability, we fail, no matter what else we do.
2 weeks ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Climate experts unwilling to say GHG caused X weather disaster= doctors unwilling to say cigarettes caused X tumor. Still say smoking kills.
2 weeks ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Cape Cod: fights wind power for yrs as environmental outrage, yet ignores its own sewage killing waterways http://nyti.ms/9TmtwM #nimbygreen
2 weeks ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) True of anything involving Republicans, really @bryanrwalsh(+) Trying to explain Senate & climate to non-Americans= exercise in embarrassment
2 weeks ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) RT @gelatobaby(+) RT @de_LaB(+) Tonight's Moving Beyond Cars in LA event http://bit.ly/dmgfFl Tag your travel stories with #labeyondcars
2 weeks ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) @kate_sheppard(+) Creepier? That the NYT describes Blankenship as "vilified" rather than "seen as a villain."
2 weeks ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) My Twifficiency score is 4%. Whats yours? http://twifficiency.com/
3 weeks ago from Twifficiency

AlexSteffen(+) Or, for European friends, Freiburg, Bordeaux or Eindhoven. Every day, day after day.
3 weeks ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Today, we will add an urban population the size of Rochester, Akron or Orlando to the world's cities. Then we'll do it again tomorrow...
3 weeks ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Lifestyle choices can't change the system with enough scope, scale, speed to matter; they don't change some aspects at all.
3 weeks ago from web

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