Nov 22, 09
Worldchanging Timeline: 2003-2009
We here at Worldchanging just celebrated our sixth anniversary! In addition to publishing a series of "101" posts, highlighting some of the iconic pieces we've published over the years, and a primer on blogs and other resources we lean heavily upon, we though that it might also be useful to share a timeline of the project so far, noting some representative events, to give the interested reader a sense of where we came from and how we got here; perhaps knowing something of the evolution of...
Blogs We Love: STUFF
While reading our daily news, we often come across media makers whose messages echo our own mission. Weekly and even daily, we come back to their sites to see what innovative ideas and projects they've created. Below is a list of the Blogs We Love that help us think about STUFF. Core77 Design Altruism Project Doors of Perception Eco Geek Latest EurekAlert! FutureWire GOOD MAKE Magazine MURKETING No Impact Man O'Reilly Radar Purse Lip Square Jaw Responsible Nanotechnology ...
Roundup: Singularity U, Algae Power, Solar Highway and More...
Three Days Left to Vote on Ashoka Changemakers! Ashoka's Changemakers, an initiative to find, fund and expand the work of social entrepreneurs worldwide, has announced the top ten finalists in the “Cultivating Innovation, Solutions for Rural Communities” competition. Entrants were asked to submit system-changing solutions, in the demonstrative phase, for agricultural and rural communities around the world. Now it is up to the public to vote (until July 8th ) and determine the three...
World Water Day: Freshwater Roundup
Sunday, March 22, is World Water Day. The UN initiative began in 1993 as a means of celebrating freshwater resources around the world, and of raising awareness around the need to keep these resources clean and available to people everywhere who need them. World Water Day 2009 is focusing on transboundary waters with its theme, "Shared Water - Shared Opportunities." Although predictions about the growing danger of water-related conflict are a heightening concern in the face of global...
The Truth About Cars, the Potential of Cities
This article was written by Alex Steffen in January 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. Today's cars are costly, dangerous and an ecological nightmare. What if the solution to the problems they create, though, has more to do with where we live than what we drive? This is a rough draft of a long essay about why I believe building compact communities should be one of America's highest environmental priorities, and why, in fact, our obsession...
Twilight in the Industrial Era
This article was written by Alex Steffen in June 2007. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. We carry its marks, but the machine age is dead to us -- oh, the assembly lines roll on in Mexico, the coal stacks still smoke in China, giant container ships still ply the seas bringing cars and appliances and laptops and clothes, but the ability to shock and disorient that the machine age once possessed is gone from the world of pretty much everyone with the...
Predicting Possible Futures
This article was written by Charlie Stross in May 2007. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. Worldchanging ally Charlie Stross is not only a science fiction writer of some reknown, but one of our best thinkers about technology and the future as well. Recently he published the following speech on his blog. It's a sharp piece of thinking, which informs in new ways all sorts of subjects we've covered here before, and he's graciously given us permission...
Worldchanging Interview: Anthony Dunne, Head of Design Interactions at RCA in London
This article was written by Regine Debatty in March 2007. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. It can be daunting to introduce the work of someone you admire. Anthony Dunne accomplishments and ingenuity can hardly be done justice in a brief prelude to an interview, but here's an excerpt from his own biography, as a starting point: Anthony Dunne is a partner in the design practice Dunne & Raby. His work with Fiona Raby uses design as a medium to...
Greening China and the Dongtan Project
This article was was written by Alex Steffen in May 2006. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. The single biggest uncertainty on the path to a bright green future can be summed up in one word: China. By most measurements, China's impact on the planet is now second only to that of the U.S., and China's coming on strong: China is expected to have more cars that America in fifteen years, has built the second largest freeway system in the world and is...
Living in Multiple Worlds
This article was was written by Jamais Cascio in March 2006. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. There's a theory in cognitive science that suggests that one of the hallmarks of human consciousness is the ability to model another person's thoughts in one's own brain, and do so with reasonable accuracy. It's not simply being able to read expressions, although that's part of it; humans can imagine how another person's thought processes, which may...
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