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Bill McKibben in the NY Review of Books
Here's part of what Bill McKibben (End of Nature, etc.) has to say about us in his forthcoming New York Review of Books piece: It is precisely this question -- how we might radically transform our daily lives -- that is addressed by the cheerful proprietors of the WorldChanging website in their new book of the same name. This is one of the most professional and interesting websites that you could possibly bookmark on your browser; almost every day they describe a new technology or technique...
Pop!Tech's Fruitful Convergences, as told by Fast Company
This weekend, several Worldchanging team members are attending (and one is presenting) Pop!Tech in Camden, ME, where brilliant people and inspired ideas inevitably yield great, groundbreaking projects. One such project is documented in the current Fast Company issue, which spotlights WC contributor, Cameron Sinclair, and Architecture for Humanity. At last year's conference, Cameron met African social entrepreneur, Neema Mgana. The two discussed the need for a clinic in Ipuli, Tanzania. Fast...
Help Us Roll Out Strong: Buy the Worldchanging Book in Advance
Friends of Worldchanging: We don't normally talk much about ourselves here, but in the last few days before the release of the Worldchanging book we're calling on our community of supporters for some help that we think you'll find mutually beneficial. Like movies, the success of books is largely determined by the rate of sales in the first week or two. If you are planning to buy a copy (or more) of the Worldchanging book, we hope you'll consider buying it before November 1. If you buy it on...
Recovering Disappeared Topography
Since moving to San Francisco from Seattle a little over a year ago, I've learned about the city on bike as opposed to by car or public transportation. Out of necessity, I've become familiar with the city's extreme topography (there are a few hills I actually walk my bike down) and its often confounding street layout. The city's history of fires and earthquakes lends a dramatic flair to what's underfoot (or wheel) and there's a definite sense that one's environment is not necessarily what it...
Maybe the Future Really is Plastics, at Least for Now
Given their ubiquity in contemporary society, it's no surprising we've talked a fair bit about plastics. But most of the time we've discussed them as a problem: something to be recycled, replaced with sugars and biopolymers, turned into compostable cellphones or banned outright in certain usages. But in the interim, mollecular engineering scientists at Carnegie Mellon are now suggesting that it may be possible to produce plastics much more cheaply while producing far less industrial waste: ...
Solar Googleplex
Google's piling on the superlatives, enhancing their giant web empire with a giant solar array -- the largest corporate system in the world -- on the roof of their million-square-foot Mountain View headquarters. The installation, according the Reuters, will be able to generate 1.6 megawatts of electricity, which is enough to power 1,000 homes or 1/3 of their on-site offices. Can't wait to hear the reports on how much money they save on energy bills in the first year.
SustainLane Government
Our friends at SustainLane.com have just launched a new online sustainability resource and knowledge base for government officials and their contractors called SustainLane Government (sustainlane.us). The site is an open-source, searchable repository for information and network-building on sustainability issues including green building, energy/ energy efficiency, climate change policy, local food systems, transportation, materials management and overall sustainability management. The ticket...
Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank win the 2006 Nobel Prize
The Grameen Bank was established in 1976 as a microfinance system to provide economic development opportunities to villagers in Bangladesh - particularly women. Now Grameen has a foundation with a worldwide network that offers loans and microcredit to help people lift themselves out of poverty. Founder Muhammad Yunus and Grammen have been awarded today with the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
Is God Green? and more Religious Environmentalism
There's been a lot of good stuff appearing in the LA Times of late. Yesterday's entertainment news featured this article about the proliferation of green thinking amongst the religious right, including a 3-part documentary series that premiers tonight entitled Is God Green?, in which born-again enviro, Bill Moyers, investigates global warming. [W]hen it comes to broadening the reach of the environmental movement to red state America, the real savior turns out to be the Rev. Richard Cizik of...
The Stockholm Trial
The world has paid semi-shocked attention to the recent change in government here in Sweden, as the center-right "Alliance" coalition came storming in with a promise not to rock the welfare-state boat too much. Why has Sweden changed horses when we currently have 5.6% GDP growth etc.? Mostly because of hidden unemployment: one in four young people can't find a job, despite the growth. But the Alliance government led by Fredrik Reinfeldt has already surprised the electorate by committing...
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