Who is This?

Alex Steffen is an award-winning writer, editor and futurist, part of the group of bright green environmentalists influenced by the Whole Earth Catalog and Bruce Sterling's Viridian movement. He is considered to be one of the world's leading thinkers about environmental sustainability, technological innovation and social reform. The usage he coined of the words "worldchanging" and "bright green" to describe innovative, future-focused sustainability work has entered the common parlance. He co-founded the popular and award-winning environmental weblog Worldchanging, and is currently the site's Executive Editor and CEO, as well as the editor of the best-selling book Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century.

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Unwritten Stories Reveal New Climate Scandal!

There's been a lot of talk recently about the "hacked climate emails." Long story, short: Hacker steals email, posts. Wingnuts take some lines out of context, claim they show a cover-up, cry conspiracy. Scientists refute, in detail. Media covers ...

From ALEX STEFFEN, WorldChanging,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Bjorn Lomborg,  Al Gore

Seattle as North America's First Carbon-Neutral City

Last week, I stood on the stage at Seattle's Town Hall and called on Seattle to become North America's first carbon-neutral city, dropping its per capita climate emissions to nothing by 2030. Since then, I've gotten a whole slew of great emails and ...

From ALEX STEFFEN, WorldChanging,  20 Nov 2009

The Fire this Time: Copenhagen and the War for the Future

That which is unsustainable cannot go on. Unsustainable things that are propped up too long snap and collapse suddenly. Our way of life is unsustainable. The sooner we transform our economy into one that can generate sustainable prosperity, the better ...

From ALEX STEFFEN, WorldChanging,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  Paul Hawken

Climate Success in Copenhagen

A quick note. Several people have asked me recently about Copenhagen and COP-15, and whether the summit isn't a failure from the start, since it pretty clearly will not produce a new treaty. I think not. But one huge achievement looks more certain, and ...

From ALEX STEFFEN, WorldChanging,  7 Nov 2009

The Revolution Will Not Be Hand-Made: A Quick Sunday-Morning Rant

(A first stab at articulating some ideas. Thoughtful feedback welcome.) We're nearing an inflection point in our discussions about sustainability and building a bright green future. Mainly, this is because we're realizing that our task is larger and ...

From ALEX STEFFEN, WorldChanging,  1 Nov 2009

Transition Towns or Bright Green Cities?

What can any of us do in the face of planetary catastrophe? The best thing, the really hopeful thing, about the Transition Town movement is that it breaks the emotional isolation privatized responsibility inflicts on us, and makes us part of a group ...

From ALEX STEFFEN, WorldChanging,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Michael Lerner,  New York Times Company,  Richard Heinberg,  Charles Taylor,  Richard White

Resilient People Conference starts tomorrow in Vancouver

Put together by WC ally Sanjay Khanna and held in conjunction with the Gaining Ground Resilient Cities event, the conference will explore a new frontier in climate change action: getting people mentally ready for the challenges to come. A roster of ...

From ALEX STEFFEN, WorldChanging,  20 Oct 2009

Encouraging Innovative Infill and Reuse

Our city is full of vacant lots and unused buildings: odd-shaped parcels, light rail left-overs, half-abandoned strip malls and big box stores. Many of these unloved spaces have characteristics or problems that prevent economically viable development ...

From ALEX STEFFEN, WorldChanging,  14 Oct 2009

How Can Bright Green Cities Thrive Without Capital?

Most banks expect their lending standards to remain tighter than the levels of the last decade until at least the middle of 2010, according to a survey of senior loan officers conducted by the Federal Reserve Board. What do you do when things are ...

From ALEX STEFFEN, WorldChanging,  14 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Federal Reserve

Why Obama Really, Realy Needs to Go To Cop-15 Now

With President Obama's failure to secure the Olympics for Chicago, a bunch of the blogosphere -- including even the NYT -- is abuzz with beltway-style speculation that a return to Copenhagen for COP-15 is now "too risky," that the President has now ...

From ALEX STEFFEN, WorldChanging,  2 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  International Olympic Committee

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