TV Interview: The War on the Future
I did an interview with LinkTV in Sweden a couple months ago, discussing planetary thinking and the War on the Future: It’s the best five-minute version of these ideas, yet. Tweet
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Help Us Make Carbon Zero one of the Top 100 Books on Amazon
Good news! Carbon Zero has broken into the top 10,000 best-selling books on Amazon. We’re doing a snap campaign today to see if we can push that up to the top 100 Kindle books. Please help us, by...
View ArticleTalk Is Action
To act in a new way, we must first see in a new way. I suspect most of us understand this, and yet, nearly all of us consistently undervalue the tools of vision, while proclaiming the virtues of...
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Where We Aren’t (Letter 1.0)
My first love was a Martian. When I was about six I fell in love with Dejah Thoris. “The incomparable” Dejah Thoris, princess of Helium, first city of Barsoom, the Red Planet … Mars; beautiful,...
View ArticleAll we need to know…
There is no elsewhere. There is no other. There is no end. Get these straight and we’re already engaged in the first task of planetary thinking. (Then the second task begins: remaking a world of human...
View ArticleThe Yeti Crab and Planetary Science
This is an old piece I wrote for Worldchanging. Some of the ideas in it came up again today, so I thought I’d share it again. ============= Perhaps you’ve met this fellow before. This is the Yeti Crab....
View ArticleThe Future of Sustainable Cities Radio Interview
I had an absolutely lovely conversation with Angie Coiro the other day for her radio show, In Deep. We discussed the future of cities, how our ideas about sustainability are changing and what to be...
View ArticleCynicism is obedience, even if you’re a hipster
Had a few experiences recently of young, clearly privileged hipsters (who I strongly suspect never took up any real political fights in their lives) telling me why we’re doomed, doomed. Ed Abbey was a...
View ArticlePractical World Peace
Some sage words on big practical goals and planetary thinking: “What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the...
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How to see nature in a city
Seeing nature in the city; Viennese park. photo: Alex Steffen(Some rough notes about nature in cities…) Urbanization is now the dominant reality of humanity on Earth, and will grow ever more so over...
View ArticleWhat pundits don’t say about climate change
The problem with most pundits who opine on climate in passing is that they don’t get the real danger they’re discussing. They fail to realize that expected impacts are not discreet events but systemic...
View ArticleA few rough thoughts on the 1:1 map that is your city
“In that Empire, the Cartographer’s art achieved such a degree of perfection that the Map of a single Province occupied an entire City, and the Map of the Empire, an entire Province. In time, these...
View ArticleDark Gray Paint
If you want to try to change the world, you will inevitably encounter the guy with the bucket of dark gray paint. This is the guy who in the middle of any discussion of any new proposal, innovation,...
View Article“Where You At?” 2013
Posted about this in 2004 on Worldchanging. Almost ten years later, I’m still pondering the question “What would an updated Bioregion Quiz look like now, and what media would it use?” What would the...
View ArticleEverything I Know Lectures
In case you haven’t gotten enough Buckminster Fuller in your life, you can watch his “Everything I Know” lectures — all 42 hours of them — online. Bucky (though a man of a different age, with different...
View ArticlePeak Gentrification
Cities won*. The urban revival — as we called it back in the day, when cities still seemed patients with uncertain prognoses — is now history. Cities are not only alive, they’re booming. All around the...
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The timeline of “climate departure” (or, climate chaos is upon us)
I wrote the other day about timelines, and the importance of having a more vigorous discussion of home much time we actually have to zero-out emissions and ruggedize for climate disruption. The answer...
View ArticleToo little housing, not land speculation, is what’s really driving up rents.
A note on speculation, taken from a comment I made elsewhere… Speculation is simply a bet that demand will outstrip supply and thus drive up the price of the investment in question. That, too, is basic...
View ArticleWhy we need development with scope, scale and speed to make our cities work
A few thoughts about the scope, scale and speed of urban change, taken from another context: I’ve been open about my judgment that that building more housing is the key to making housing affordable,...
View ArticleMuch better development, made much easier
A question I often get asked when I talk about the need to build in booming cities to build a lot more housing, quickly, is “What about quality?” Here are a few quick thoughts. Concern for the quality...
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