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• Alex Steffen:

  The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty

• Alex Steffen:

  There's no law of physics that says we have to be an unsustainable society - in fact, quite the opp

• Alex Steffen:

  I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how mu

• Alex Steffen:

  When the Internet really first started to hit, people felt this would be the death blow: after subu

• Alex Steffen:

  If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create

• Alex Steffen:

  For most people, using the Internet broadens their sense of who 'we' is and actually ends up leavin

• Alex Steffen:

  I think we're going to start to see a new model of civic advocacy where people get together once in

• Alex Steffen:

  One of the most unfortunate side effects of the urban activism of the '60s and '70s is the belief t

• Alex Steffen:

  In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able

• Alex Steffen:

  The biggest thing growing cities need to do is minimize barriers to development so that as long as