Alex Steffen is one of the world’s leading planetary futurists.
How can we make ourselves into good ancestors? As we launch into a century of unprecedented change, we need to seek and create new possibilities for humanity and the planet we live on. Alex Steffen has spent his career writing, speaking and consulting about our planetary future, sustainability and social innovation. His work is solutions-based and practical while keeping the big picture firmly in mind.
Alex, the New York Times says, “lays out the blueprint for a successful century.”
He was Executive Editor of the multi-award-winning Worldchanging.com after he co-founded the site in 2003 until it closed in 2010. In those seven years, Alex made Worldchanging one of the world’s leading sustainability-related publications, with an archive of almost 12,000 articles and a large global audience. He also edited the bestselling (and Green Prize-winning) companion book Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century. His most recent project is the forthcoming Carbon Zero: A Short Tour of Your City’s Future, a brief book which explains in practical terms the seemingly wild innovations successful cities will employ to achieve carbon neutrality it in the next few decades. His next project is a book about the future of the Future.
Alex’s Talk: The Future is a Thing of the Past