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A Solar-Powered Pilgrim

WorldChanging Team

by Ben Block Martin Vosseler wakes each morning and walks towards the rising sun. For seven months and counting, the retired Swiss doctor has crossed the United States to discuss the merits of solar power and other forms of renewable energy with whomever he meets. He has refused to accept car rides or travel via public transportation. Instead he chooses to walk all the way from Los Angeles to Boston. "When people see me on the highway, sometimes on the freeway, thousands and thousands...

Scenius, Innovation and Epicenters

Alex Steffen

Ally Kevin Kelly has a terrific piece up about Brian Eno's concept of scenius: Brian Eno suggested the word to convey the extreme creativity that groups, places or "scenes" can occasionally generate. His actual definition is: "Scenius stands for the intelligence and the intuition of a whole cultural scene. It is the communal form of the concept of the genius." Individuals immersed in a productive scenius will blossom and produce their best work. When buoyed by scenius, you act like...

Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There!

Billy Matheson

Last week over 200 people met in downtown Wellington and ‘froze’ together to help New Zealand launch the 2008 World Environment Day. According to the event’s mysterious organizer, ‘Mr Freeze’, the purpose of the Freeze was to “encourage everyone to stop and think together about our environment. By thinking and acting together, we can help turn any harmful impacts on the environment around.” Check out the official video on Intersect. Inspired by similar Freeze 'improvs'...

How to Protest in the New Millennium, and Not Get Arrested

Sarah Kuck

When my friend was three, her dad taught her how to climb a tree. Not for sport, but so that in case she needed to, she could stage a tree sit. This was a totally foreign concept to me, especially having a parent endorse such an activity. I’m from a small town in the Midwest and think my first time seeing a protest was in a scene from Forest Gump. Protesting, in my mind, involved sit-ins, marches and getting arrested. In the new millennium, successful direct action campaigns not only...

Common Sense, Freely Available

Alex Steffen

Tom Paine is, I believe, the great forgotten hero of the American Republic. The ideas he championed, first in Revolutionary America, and then in Revolutionary France, remain the at the driving core of enlightened progress on democratization, human rights, social equality and secular governance. Even through 200 years of dust, they retain a cutting edge. So when Giles Lane at Proboscis asked me to choose a short public domain classic and write a brief introduction, I happily complied by...

Benedict: Green Pope?

WorldChanging Team

by Gary Gardner Rumor has it that Pope Benedict may address climate change during his visit to the United Nations this week. Whether he does or not, his young papacy can claim to be the "greenest" ever. Benedict has identified extensive common ground between sustainability concerns and a Catholic worldview - adding weight to the argument that the world's religions could be instrumental in nudging policymakers and the public to embrace sustainability. Now, the Pope has the...

Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize Lecture

Alex Steffen

Quote of the day: "We must abandon the conceit that individual, isolated, private actions are the answer. ...That means adopting principles, values, laws and treaties that release creativity and initiative at every level of society..." -Al Gore, in his Peace Prize lecture Here are two longer passages in full" "We must abandon the conceit that individual, isolated, private actions are the answer. They can and do help. But they will not take us far enough without collective action. At the...

The Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism

Ethan Zuckerman

Ethan's talk at ETech was one of my favorite parts of this year's conference. He wrote it up on his excellent personal blog, My Heart's In Accra. I think Worldchanging readers will find it funny, smart and useful. K thx bye! --Alex I’d forgotten just how much fun ETech is. Not only are the talks some of the most creative and innovative you can hear in the tech community, the room full of people is one of the most congenial, smart and funny you’re likely to encounter anywhere. Tim...

Netsquared Mashup Challenge

Micki Krimmel

Netsquared is an organization devoted to connecting nonprofit organizations with Web 2.0 technologies to help them better achieve their goals. We've featured the work of Netsquared here on Worldchanging many times. We can hardly believe it ourselves but the third annual Netsquared conference (N2Y3) is almost upon us. In preparation for this year's event, Netsquared is inviting social innovators to share their ideas in The Netsquared Mashup Challenge. What do you need to participate? Just an...

What are the Top Ten Questions Right Now?

WorldChanging Team

Einstein once said that if you gave him an hour to solve a problem, and his life depended on getting the right answer, he would spend 55 minutes figuring out what questions to ask. "For if I knew the proper questions," he said, "I could solve the problem in less than 5 minutes." Conversation Week 2008, a global dialogue initiative sponsored by WC allies Conversation Cafe and Global MindShift, is seeking your help to come up with the 10 "most important questions in the world right now." You...

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