“There's a lot of evidence that shows that if we push as hard as we nee...” — Alex Steffen Quote

“There's a lot of evidence that shows that if we push as hard as we need to for net-zero emissions, we'll find ourselves with cities that are more secure, healthier, and have more economic opportunity - are frankly better cities to live in - than if we settle for the status quo.”

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

“It's not that hard to imagine the natural world recovering it's health in our absence: it's more difficult, and more necessary, to imagine it recovering its health in our presence.”

“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.”

“Cities are not problems. They are solutions.”

“Sure enough, my mom and dad are from different cities north of Seattle and they had met through my mom's cousin.”