Carbon Zero: Imagining Cities That Can Save the Planet

"Alex Steffen may be the world's boldest, most innovative thinker about future cities. Carbon Zero will stretch, provoke, inspire, and reassure. It's the perfect gift for your smartest friends."

Carbon Zero is a short, clear, optimistic look at how cities can succeed in the age of climate consequences. It's about changing how we grow our cities, so we can seize a better future. Whether your main concern is the future of your neighborhood or the future of the planet, this is a book you need to read.

The climate crisis is upon us, it's massive and it's getting worse quickly. We must make bold and rapid reductions in our climate emissions. In fact, in just the next couple decades we must achieve net-zero climate emissions. That target, zero carbon, presents a stupendous challenge.

Our cities, though, give us amazing opportunities to reduce our climate emissions while improving both our economy and our communities.

Solutions abound. From cutting edge green buildings to more walkable neighborhoods, new "walkshed" technologies to green infrastructure, the sharing economy to the reconnection of urban places to rural nature, we have a tool chest of approaches that can make our lives frugal in energy but abundant in wealth and quality of life. If we bring the best solutions together in our cities, we can build cities that can lead us into the zero-carbon future.

We can't build, though, what we can't imagine. Carbon Zero takes on the task of imagining how all these innovations might work together, and gives you the tools to reimagine the possibilities of your city. It's not a blueprint. It's not a manifesto.

Carbon Zero is an invitation to imagine winning the climate fight.

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