Looking for a speaker for your upcoming conference, meeting or lecture series?

Alex Steffen (Worldchanging's co-founder and editor, for those just joining us) is well known as a writer, editor and blogger, but he also is a popular public speaker, giving many talks a year at leading companies (including Nike, IDEO and Amazon), universities (including Harvard, Stanford and Yale), cultural institutions (from Barcelona's CCCB to the Danish Architecture Centre) and major conferences (including TED, Copenhagen's Bright Green, Design Indaba, Pop!Tech, Picnic and South by Southwest, as well as numerous professional associations).

Alex speaks about a variety of subjects, ranging from carbon-neutral cities to sustainable business strategy, innovative design solutions to futurism for an urban planet. Instead of leaving your audience feeling hopeless, Alex's solutions-based talks will challenge your audience to think in new ways, leave them optimistic about the possibilities of a bright green future and inspire them to act.

If you'd like to book Alex for your own event, the good people at the Lavin Agency (which represents Alex) can help arrange that for you: it's easy to learn more at Alex's speaker page.

You can follow Alex on Twitter at @AlexSteffen.

In addition, Alex is available as a consultant for appropriate projects, and can be contacted through his soon-to-launch new website AlexSteffen.com.

You can also watch a number of Alex's talks over the years on our website:

• at TED | 2007
  
• at Pop!Tech | 2006
  
• at Yale University | 2009
  
• at Danish Architecture Centre | 2008
  
• at Town Hall Seattle | 2009
  
• at Future City | 2010

"2050" slide from Worldchanging's "Future City" event. (The slideshow text was written by Alex Steffen; the slides were designed by Oscar Murillo with assistance from Amanda Reed)

Image of Alex Steffen at the top of the post by photographer Chase Jarvis as part of his "Seattle 100" book project.