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Alex Steffen (born 1968) is an American futurist who writes and speaks about sustainability and the future of the planet. ==Biography== From 2003-2010, Steffen was Executive Editor at the website Worldchanging. Worldchanging practiced "solutions-based journalism." The nonprofit announced the goal of its work was to highlight new solutions to what the editorial team saw as the planet's most pressing problems, rather than to spread news of those problems or critiques of their causes. The site won or was nominated for a number of awards and prizes, including: 2005 won the Utne Independent Press Award; 2006, finalist for a Webby for Best Blog; 2007 finalist for a Webby for Best Magazine, as well as for Bloggie awards for Best Group Weblog and Best Writing for a Weblog; won the Green Prize for Sustainable Literature for its book; won Organic Design Award; Prix Ars Electronica nominee; 2008 named a Webby Official Honoree. In November 2006, Steffen published a survey of global innovation, ''Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st century'' (ISBN 978-0810930957) with a foreword by Al Gore, design by Stefan Sagmeister and an introduction by Bruce Sterling. A new, updated edition, with a foreword by Van Jones and an introduction by Bill McKibben, was published in 2011. In 2012, Steffen released ''Carbon Zero: Imagining Cities That Can Save the Planet'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=How cities can lead the climate fight: Introducing Alex Steffen’s ‘Climate Zero’ )〕 a book which explored the innovations and policy changes a North American city would need to make to become carbon neutral. In 2013, he became "Planetary Futurist in Residence" at the design company IDEO.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Alex Steffen Speaker Profile at The Lavin Agency )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alex Steffen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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