The tour for our new book, WorldChanging: A User's Guide to the 21st Century, will be in New York City three times in the next two months, hosting four events. And there's one "unofficial" event as well. Please come!

November 2nd: Bar Meet-up at The Magician

• 118 Rivington Street
  New York, NY 10002
  
• Directions: Take the F at Delancey St; or J, M, Z at Essex St
  
• Time: 5:30--??
  
• RSVP: WorldchangingNY [AT] gmail.com
  
• This is our informal pre-launch party. Come on down and tip a glass with us to celebrate the great community of New York worldchangers! No speeches will be given, no committees formed: just good fun with other people who care about the planet.
  

November 21st: Buckminster Fuller Institute Event

• 15 Nassau Street (Lower Manhattan Cultural Council)
  New York, NY 10005
  
• Start time: 7:00
  
• RSVP: WorldchangingBFI [AT] gmail.com
  
• Please join us for an intimate evening of big ideas, worldchanging innovation, and visions of a better future, co-presented with the Buckminster Fuller Institute. Then stick around for a glass of wine and good conversation.
  

BIG Green Holiday Party

• Tuesday December 12, 2006
  
• 7-11pm (afterparty, too!)
  
• Place to be announced soon.
  
• Green Drinks has been kind enough to make us the special guests at their 5th Annual “Big Green Holiday Party and Raffle” It sounds like the best holiday party in the country, with an all-star lineup of worldchanging heroes planning to attend, and some of NY's best and brightest green turning out to party. Music and booze, mixing and mingling, as well as "tasty bites from local and organic restaurants and green raffle prizes including a solar backpack, a yoga retreat, and signed copies of Worldchanging." This is promising to be one hell of a party. Thanks, Green Drinks folks!
  

(Emily's note: Folks who remember last year's blowout big green holiday party, co-hosted by Greendrinks, the O2NYC list, and other local green lists, will know to prepare for a crush!)

I'd also like to plug an evening discussion with NYC-based contributors to the book:

• Co-sponsored by the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance and the Municipal Art
• Society's Urban Center Books, [added Oct. 31:] and the Architectural League.
  
• Location: The Urban Center, 457 Madison Ave., between 50 and 51 Streets
  
• Date: Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006
  
• Time: 6:30-8:00 pm.
  
• Reception to follow, courtesy of Urban Center Books.
  

I hope you'll come on out to the gorgeous Urban Center, talk with us, and perhaps get your post-Thanksgiving holiday book shopping underway at Urban Center Books.

"Join New York-based contributors to WorldChanging: A User's Guide to the 21st Century (Harry N. Abrams, Inc.), the new book poised to be the Whole Earth Catalog for this millennium, to explore and discuss some of the most pressing problems of the next hundred years -- and some of the most exciting solutions."

Moderator: Wendy E. Brawer, founder and executive director of the Green Map System

Contributors will include:

• David Bornstein, on changing the world via social entrepreneurship
  
• Patrick Di Justo, on strengthening developing-world communities through educating girls and empowering women
  
• Jill Fehrenbacher, on green lighting, interiors, furniture and
  decor for the home
  
• Emily Gertz, on emerging technologies for citizen environmental monitoring and political activism
  
• Anna Lappe, on transforming the food-and-agriculture system to support communities, sustainability, and economic justice [Oct. 31: Anna has had to bow out due to a scheduling conflict.]
  
• Emeka Okafor, on science and technology collaborations between nations in the global South
  
• Andrew Zolli (invited), on critical trends at the intersection of
  culture, technology and global society[Oct. 31: Sadly, Andrew can't make it due to schedule conflict.]