Nov 20, 08
Video: Sustainable Innovation conference in Malmo
As many of you know, Alex Steffen presented last month at the Sustainable Innovation Conference in Malmo, Sweden. Worldchanging ally Joel Mulligan attended the conference with camera in hand, and has been kind enough to share his original footage here on Worldchanging. Below you'll find a half-hour excerpt from Alex's talk, as well as Mulligan's four interviews with other conference presenters. We hope you enjoy this glimpse into Sustainable Innovation 2008! Sustainable Innovation...
Photo Essay: The 2008 World Expo
by Justine Bayod Espoz We encourage submissions from members of Worldchanging's global audience who volunteer to write up their notes from conferences, workshops and other worldchanging happenings they participate in. If you'd like to contribute your own report, please email editor@worldchanging.com. Global Warming, extreme droughts, desertification and pollution are just a few of the contributing factors to an ever-increasing scarcity of fresh water on our planet that by 2025 could leave...
Biomimicry at Bioneers
The Bioneers conference, an old staple of the conference circuit for many greens, will once again be held two weeks from now, a little ways north of San Francisco. But this year there's an additional new event, put together by the Biomimicry Institute (with whom I've worked): it's a day-long seminar the day after Bioneers finishes, called Biomimicry’s Climate-Change Solutions: How Would Nature Do It? We've long touted biomimicry as an excellent tool for green design, and Worldchanging ally...
Worldchanging Fifth Anniversary Party in Seattle
In Seattle, Wash., on Oct. 1, Worldchanging will celebrate its fifth year as a solutions-based online magazine. For half a decade, we've been working diligently to bring you the world's most innovative ideas through our website and best-selling book, and now it's time to party! We would like to invite you, our favorite local friends and collaborators, to come and help us start our fifth year off right. On Oct. 1, lace up your Chuck Taylors, shine up your dark-rimmed glasses and join us on...
Medals Per Million
Olympics achievement on a per capita basis. by Eric de Place Forget the showdown between the United States and China, the real battle was between the Bahamas and Iceland. Certainly nobody reported the Olympics that way, but isn't there something unfair about tallying medals without regard to population? China's athletes, drawn from a pool of 1.3 billion people, match up against American athletes from a pool about one-quarter as big. Though of course we Americans love...
NRDC Tour of Yellowstone's Whitebark Pine Ecosystem
Last night, I touched down just north of Jackson Hole, Wyo., in the Grand Tetons. The landing strip -- the only airport inside of a national park -- lies just within the shadow of the jagged mountain range. I am headed to Yellowstone for a tour of the Whitebark Pine Ecosystem. Yellowstone is the world’s first national park, and one of the largest relatively intact temperate zone ecosystems left on Earth. It’s home to iconic species such as the Grizzly, Bison and elk; geologic features...
Pop!Tech Announces 2008 Lineup
This October, renowned ideas summit Pop!Tech will once again bring the world's social innovation network to the seaside town of Camden, Maine. (Check out our archives for Worldchanging coverage of past Pop!Tech conferences here and here.) The planners of Pop!Tech have unveiled their program for "Pop!Tech 2008: Scarcity and Abundance," and we're excited to see that they are featuring Worldchanging comrades Clay Shirky and Malcom Gladwell. (You can read our Worldchanging Interview with Clay...
Letter from Tällberg: Let's Talk about Transformation
"Let's talk about transformation for a couple of minutes" says the moderator, John Kao (a San Francisco-based consultant who also plays a mean jazz piano). Apparently, that's all the time they have. At the moment, three business leaders are on the stage, representing a major car company, a big bank, and a smaller, socially responsible bank. We've heard some good stories, and some good marketing messages of course, the highlight of which was the origin of the Carbon Principles: one big...
Letter from Tällberg: 350? Well, Poo
The former President of Costa Rica, Jose Maria Figueres, has just congratulated another Latin American leader (a government minister in Equador -- her name is not in the program) who was recounting a success story that had lifted farmers in her country from one dollar per day to $3.50 per day in income. "Your farmers," says Figueres, "have just surpassed the income of a European cow. They earn roughly $3.00 per day, in subsidies from the European Union." Routinely, it is quips like...
PUSH Conference: Day One
By Jessica Chapman 1 p.m. The PUSH conference kicked off this morning at the Walker Art Museum in downtown Minneapolis, with short presentations by Chandran Nair, founder of the Global Institute for Tomorrow (GIFT) and Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of Good Magazine and co-founder of Ethos Water (and Worldchanging contributor and friend). Both Nair and Greenblatt are professed optimists--no easy task when simultaneously displaying images detailing global water shortages and abject poverty....
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