Collaboration / Emerging Technologies / Food & Farming / Purchasing Green / Sustainable Design
Visions Desirable, Present and Future
Mark Tovey, 8 Feb 10 Here at WorldChanging, we often have conversations about how best to envision desirable futures. Not just on how to collaborate on designing them, or accelerate development on the kind of technology that would get us there, but how to portray...
Re-seeing the Waterfront
Alex Steffen, 3 Feb 10 Seattle is in the midst of a fierce debate about the future of its waterfront. It's aging seawall needs to be replaced, a project the Mayor wants to take to the voters in a $241 million ballot measure. An elevated...
Bracing for a Century of Rising Seas
Yale Environment 360, 14 Jan 10 As governments, businesses, and homeowners plan for the future, they should assume that the world’s oceans will rise by at least two meters — roughly seven feet — this century. But far too few agencies or individuals are preparing for...
Designing a Generation Ship
Alex Steffen, 6 Jan 10 Charlie Stross has a brilliant post up on his blog, taking up the question of how best to design the institutions to run "generation ships" -- spacecraft designed to take large numbers of people a very long distance. If you...
2009 Reflections & 2010 Predictions
WorldChanging Team, 5 Jan 10 by Tamara Giltsoff Connected Business Thinking | Sustainability Strategy 1. 2009 Reflection – The slow death of the free-market The global economic recession, which peaked in 2009, led many to question neo-liberal/neo-classical capitalism. Well, it’s perhaps more accurate to say...
