Alex Steffen Quotes About Energy

Quotes about: Energy

• By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we're setting ourselves up not to solve it.

  Alex Steffen

  Energy, Climate, Generations

• 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

  Cities, Energy, Climate

• 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

  Powerful, Home, Practice

• 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

  Views, Design, Energy

• The denser places get, the lower the amount of energy people use to get around it.

  Alex Steffen

  People, Energy, Use

  "SXSW Eco: Sustainability And The Carbon Zero City, By The Numbers" by Lynne Peeples, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2011.

• 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

  Cities, Decision, Energy

  "Alex Steffen on Carbon-Zero Cities". Interview with Theresa Riley, billmoyers.com. March 19, 2013.

• 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

  Talking, Cities, Impact

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