Alex Steffen
@alexsteffen · The Snap Forward · Substack profile · Climate & Environment
Alex Steffen has 25,376 followers on Substack as of Nov 1, 2026. On the latest board read, Nov 6, 2026, they were #39 on Substack's Climate & Environment Bestsellers board. 51 publications recommend them, and they recommend 12.
Last read Nov 1, 2026 (UTC). Followers are not email subscribers. Substack lists only the newest 50 recommendations for each publication, so a recommender count of 50 or more is a floor. History starts Oct 31, 2026; Substack publishes nothing earlier.
- Followers
- 25,376
- read Nov 1
- Last 7 days
- first number on Nov 7
- Last 30 days
- first number on Nov 30
- Subscribers
- 16K+
- rounded by Substack
- Paid subscribers
- 100+
- bestseller badge 100+
- Recommended by
- 51
- none new in 30 days
- Recommends
- 12
- Bestsellers rank
- #39
- Climate & Environment
Followers by day
Tracking since Oct 31, 2026. 2 days of readings. Substack doesn't publish past follower counts, so history starts the day I first read a writer and grows by one reading every 3 days (daily if it's on your watchlist). The 7-day change appears on Nov 7, the 30-day change on Nov 30. Recommendation dates below go further back: they're Substack's own.
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| Date | Followers | Change | Subscribers | Paid band |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 2026 | 25,376 | +6 | 16K+ | |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 25,370 | 16K+ |
Leaderboard positions
| Board | Rank now | Best on record | Reads on it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Climate & Environment Bestsellers | #39 | #38 | 4 of 4 |
| Climate & Environment Rising | #57 | #51 | 4 of 4 |
Rank on each read
| Writer | Oct 3107:00 | Oct 3113:00 | Oct 3119:47 | Nov 621:50 | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Climate & Environment Bestsellers | 38 | 38 | 38 | 39 | ▼1 |
| Climate & Environment Rising | 53 | 51 | 51 | 57 | ▼4 |
I read every board once a day.
Recommendations
51 publications recommend Alex Steffen. Alex Steffen recommends 12, and 2 of those recommend back. Lists read Oct 31.
When the recommendations started
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| Month | Started |
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| 2022-04 | 1 |
| 2022-08 | 1 |
| 2024-01 | 1 |
| 2024-07 | 3 |
| 2024-08 | 4 |
| 2024-09 | 3 |
| 2024-10 | 5 |
| 2024-12 | 2 |
| 2025-01 | 5 |
| 2025-02 | 3 |
| 2025-03 | 1 |
| 2025-04 | 1 |
| 2025-05 | 1 |
| 2025-06 | 1 |
| 2025-07 | 3 |
| 2025-08 | 3 |
| 2025-09 | 1 |
| 2025-10 | 4 |
| 2025-11 | 1 |
| 2025-12 | 2 |
| 2026-02 | 1 |
| 2026-06 | 2 |
| 2026-07 | 1 |
| 2026-09 | 1 |
Recommended by
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All 51
- AccumulationZonestarted Apr 2025
- Patrick’s Substackstarted Mar 2025
- Parenting the Apocalypsestarted Feb 2025
- No Way Out But Throughstarted Feb 2025
- Andrew’s Substackstarted Feb 2025
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- Our Third Kid Was Twinsstarted Jan 2025
- David’s Substackstarted Jan 2025
- Cynthia Robertsstarted Jan 2025
- Annie’s Substackstarted Jan 2025
- Steve’s Substackstarted Dec 2024
- Lee’s Substackstarted Dec 2024
- Ryan’s Substackstarted Oct 2024
- Maggie’s Substackstarted Oct 2024
- Althea’s Substackstarted Oct 2024
- Our Third Kid Was Twinsstarted Oct 2024
- Eclectic Inquiriesstarted Oct 2024
- jenise’s Substackstarted Sep 2024
- Chris’s Substackstarted Sep 2024
- Finding High Leveragestarted Sep 2024
- Ann’s Substackstarted Aug 2024
- Utkarsh’s Substackstarted Aug 2024
- Bhushan’s Substackstarted Aug 2024
- Brielle’s Substackstarted Aug 2024
- Adam’s Substackstarted Jul 2024
- Bob’s Substackstarted Jul 2024
- Aiminglike0’s Substackstarted Jul 2024
Recommends
- Bill McKibben177k followers · started May 2022 · mutual
Venkatesh Rao42k followers · started May 2022- Britt Wray36k followers · started May 2022 · mutual
Lloyd Alter11k followers · started Oct 29, 2026new- The Golden Hour: climate, children, mental healthstarted May 12, 2026
- Climate Quitterstarted Dec 15, 2025
- Changing language in the #climatecrisisstarted Mar 2025
- beimwortstarted Feb 2025
- Superfluxstarted Feb 2024
- Molly Wood Mediastarted Dec 2022
- The Climate Weeklystarted May 2022
- Field Notesstarted Apr 2022
Substack lists the 50 newest recommenders of each publication. I add every recommendation found in the full lists of the 6,392 publications I read, so writers with many recommenders may still be missing a few small ones. "Started" is Substack's date.
Recommended by the same publications
Writers who share the most recommenders with Alex Steffen. Useful for finding peers, and for sponsors looking for similar audiences.
- 3 shared
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36k followers - 2 shared
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Who recommends writers like this one
Publications that recommend at least two other Climate & Environment writers with 10,000 to 50,000 followers (55 writers in that group), but not Alex Steffen.
- recommends 7 of themKatharine Hayhoe@katharinehayhoe
- recommends 5 of them
Jason Anthony@jasonanthony - recommends 5 of them
David Turver@davidturver - recommends 5 of themNo Lines in Nature
- recommends 4 of them
Roger Pielke Jr.@rogerpielkejr - recommends 4 of them
Sam Matey-Coste@sammatey - recommends 4 of them
Gabe Popkin@gabepopkin - recommends 4 of themTURBO GOTH UNIVERSE
- recommends 3 of them
Climate Action Now@climateactionnow1 - recommends 3 of them
Chloe Hope@deathandbirds
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