Alex Steffen - Media Coverage and Response

Media Coverage and Response

The New York Times, in a 2011 profile, said “Alex Steffen, a designing optimist, lays out the blueprint for a successful century.” In a cover story, WIE Magazine called Steffen "a pioneering thinker on global sustainability." Rotman magazine (the alumni magazine of Rotman School of Management) described him as "an award-winning writer... engaged in innovative, future-forward sustainability work", while local newspaper Seattle Weekly called him one "of the world's leading green futurists".

He was chosen by The New York Times Magazine as one of six leading innovators in its "Ecotecture" issue, was named one of the "GOOD Magazine 100" and is the subject of a CNN documentary.

Steffen's ideas have been covered in stories in The New York Times and New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, Time magazine, Der Spiegel, Business Week, Fortune, Wired, US News and World Report, USA Today, the L.A. Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Times, Le Monde, The Independent, The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Seattle Times and The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Fast Company, SEED, ID, Dwell, ReadyMade, the Associated Press, The New York Review of Books, The International Herald Tribune, The Globe and Mail, The New Statesman, The Nation, New Scientist, Sierra magazine, Outside, Audubon, and The Sun. Steffen has also appeared on the Today Show, LinkTV and several CBC television programs. Radio includes the CBC's the Current, the BBC, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, NPR's Living on Earth, Open Source and Morning Edition programs, as well as on Earth & Sky, Marketplace and many local NPR affiliate and talk radio programs.