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“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.”

Quote by Alex Steffen

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Alex Steffen, born in 1968, is an influential thinker in the fields of sustainable development and future cities. His work focuses on exploring how to achieve sustainable urbanization in the 21st century and how to address global challenges through innovation and collaboration. more

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“For most people, using the Internet broadens their sense of who 'we' is and actually ends up leaving us in a place of greater compassion and understanding. It leaves us more connected to a larger group of people and more at one with a lot more people in our community.”

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“I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.”

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“I think we're going to start to see a new model of civic advocacy where people get together once in a while to protest, but it's more about an ongoing, sustained engagement in issues, networks and communities about which people care.”

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“If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.”

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“There's no law of physics that says we have to be an unsustainable society - in fact, quite the opposite. The planet's ready to work with us if we're ready to think differently, but we do have to make that jump and start to do things in new ways.”

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