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AlexSteffen(+) That said, I do think about 2/3 of the average person's possessions, by volume= planet-killing, credit-leveraged disposable crap...
2 hours ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Bright green living must involve neither too much stuff nor the complete absence of nice things: the right stuff, made well, used properly.
2 hours ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) The inability to distinguish between useful and useless stuff makes most anti-materialist/anti-consumerist stances uninteresting.
2 hours ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Quite clearly, some material objects make our lives better, and some are of great worth to people, on intangible terms.
2 hours ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Need good thinking on essential nature of intangible wealth (relationships, experiences, meaning), that isn't shallowly anti-materialist.
3 hours ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) We're extending the deadline for applications for our Managing Director position until Monday 8 am Pac: http://www.worldchanging.com/jobs/
5 hours ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Bill Dunster has forgotten more about future-proofing buildings than I'll ever know: http://vimeo.com/9120443
20 hours ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Great new feature on important invisible issue @Worldchanging(+) Pushing Back Against the Methane Tipping Point http://bit.ly/9OAHp5
1 day ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) @avantgame(+) Wow! Go get 'em!
2 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Can we actually route around Internet censorship? Maybe not. http://bit.ly/bQ1ifN (pls RT)
2 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Not just energy... @drgrist(+) Underappreciated: huge overlap btwn rich & poor countries' energy needs. Small, fast, cheap, community-based
2 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Nanotech spawns unanticipated method of energy generation, raising renewed questions about regulation: http://bit.ly/thermopower
2 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Empire Espresso: drinking coffee, plowing through Monday morning email, writing while the happy soccer fans cheer Wigan/L'pool #lifedontsuck
2 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Why imagining rapid transformation can be realistic. @Worldchanging(+) November 1941 and the Turning of the Tide http://bit.ly/cE0RyZ
2 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) In November 1941, WWII looked unwinnable. What can bright greens learn from 11/41? http://bit.ly/bOEou3 (pls RT!)
2 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Reminder: Worldchanging Managing Editor applications due Wednesday @6(+):00 Pacific. http://www.worldchanging.com/jobs/
2 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) My list of projects I could happily spend a year or two on keeps expanding: there's already no way I could do them all in this lifetime.
3 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Yes! Nine friends, five kinds of ice cream, one lamb; stories of penguin sex+ the dog who refused to die; epic Munchkin until the wee hours.
4 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Tonight's menu: rosemary leg of lamb (local, organic), new potatoes, spring greens salad, green peas, cheeses.
4 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Beautiful. Most important work there is! @ccoletta(+) @jackiegerstein(+) "connecting optimists"
4 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Other suggestions for a decadent hearty Spring main dish? All guests are carnivorous.
4 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Was going to do Julia Child's Beef Bourguignon for dinner party, but apparently I would've had to have gotten up yesterday to start it.
4 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) This is the nonprofit journalism theme song! @drgrist(+) How many times can I listen to this song in one day? http://bit.ly/9RXA8g
5 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) This is quite possibly the most effective use ever made of the baby bunny, flower, peppy electronica combo: http://bit.ly/9uIil1
5 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) More of the brilliant Dan Hill http://bit.ly/bTRmZD I learn something every time he writes. Or talks: http://bit.ly/DanHill
5 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Imagining a future for Australia: thinking about regional competitiveness and innovation http://bit.ly/cuVQKt
5 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Sarah Kuck's "Imagining a Carbon Neutral Seattle" post is getting lots of buzz here but applies to any city http://bit.ly/bLdvl2
5 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Methane melt found in Arctic. Big shifts on the way? Time to accelerate solutions: http://bit.ly/methanemelt (please RT!)
5 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Rock, meet hornet's nest. @alexismadrigal(+) Serious question: what's the libertarian answer for climate change?
6 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) For the right person, a terrific opportunity: Worldchanging's hiring an Interim Managing Editor http://www.worldchanging.com/jobs/ (pls RT)
6 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." Applies to planetary futurism.
6 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Many people I admire most were, in their younger years, fans of Asimov’s “Foundation” trilogy+ it's hero, Hari Seldon.
6 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Wow. Just getting through the first pass of email, sorting remaining inbox + writing complete to-do list took the whole morning.
6 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Watched last The Wire episode last night: even tho 5th season lagged a bit, still the best urban storytelling television I've seen.
6 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) RT @kate_sheppard(+) Climate Skeptics+ Creationists Join Forces. Expect "gravity" next on list of controversies to teach http://bit.ly/ctOdmR
7 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) RT @bruces(+) Hey futurists, don't stick to the boss's comfort zone. http://bit.ly/aomYR1
7 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) RT @rmchase(+) Lester Brown says the science demands an 80% cut in CO2 emissions by 2020. http://digg.com/u1PAyh
7 days ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) And, ironically, in dismissing the very real role of veteran reporters, editors, we may lose the chance to make democratizing media powerful
1 week ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) There's plenty of crap in the media these days, but good journalists are not just stenographers+ cameramen. The craft is not easily learned.
1 week ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) I find many techies eager to "replace" MSM with crowd-based approaches don't actually seem to understand what good journalism is.
1 week ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Treat anyone who says different energy sources alone can save us as perhaps uniformed; anyone who says ONLY they can save us as suspect.
1 week ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Lots of people would like us to believe that only massively subsidized investments in energy (renewables, nukes, CCS) can save us.
1 week ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Think maybe, maybe there might be political agendas at work here?
1 week ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) MIght want to ask why the Jevons paradox has seen such a sudden intellectual vogue +why it is shorthanded to "efficiency don't work"
1 week ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) We know that rebound effects are limited, conditional and to some degree easily corrected with green taxes (even tax+dividend works).
1 week ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) People who argue that the Jevons paradox theory makes energy efficiency pointless might really want to actually learn what it is +isn't.
1 week ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Flight back to Seattle: Think I'll play hooky and read a book for pleasure.
1 week ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Worldchanging is hiring a new Managing Editor. Terrific job for the right person. http://www.worldchanging.com/jobs/
1 week ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Great! They can start by supporting transit in Seattle... @rmchase(+) Microsoft believes in addressing climate change http://digg.com/u1P2xe
1 week ago from web

AlexSteffen(+) Too many think problem w/ journalism is a deficit of facts. Journalism must be factual, but w/o story, it's lifeless. More data won't fix it
1 week ago from web

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