Collaboration / Emerging Technologies / Food & Farming / Purchasing Green / Sustainable Design
FOUR YEARS.GO. - A New Campaign to Shift the Trends of Humanity
Amanda Reed, 1 Sep 10 The time to act on climate change is now. In that light, a new campaign called FOUR YEARS.GO. has been started to inspire action towards a more environmentally sustainable and socially just planet in the next four years. As they...
Disaster Tourism, Climate Change in the Forest, and the Sixth Extinction
WorldChanging Team, 27 Aug 10 Looking back one, two and five years ago today on Worldchanging: 2009 See it Before it Disappears: Reconciling and Regulating Disaster Tourism Carissa Bluestone examines the growing interest in 'see it before it's gone' tourism, its impacts on local economies...
Building a Greener World through Marketplace Economics and Radical Transparency
Yale Environment 360, 26 Aug 10 Consumers now have little information about the true ecological impacts of what they buy. But that may be about to change, as new technologies that track supply chains are emerging and companies as diverse as Unilever and Google look to...
Hygroelectricity: A Prospective New Energy Source - Electricity Pulled Out of Thin Air!
WorldChanging Team, 26 Aug 10 by David Bois Recent scientific advancements have led to one innovation that can extract potable water from atmospheric moisture and another that produces synthetic fuel feedstock by removing atmospheric carbon dioxide. Science Daily now reports of cutting-edge clean energy developments...
Gameful: A New Secret HQ for Worldchanging Games
Amanda Reed, 23 Aug 10 My recent post on Games for Change seemed to be pretty popular, so I thought many of you would be interested to learn of Jane McGonigal's (and co-founders Nathan Verrill, Matthew Jensen, and Kiyash Monsef) new venture: Gameful. Gameful...
- To Protect, Renew, and Re-Tool: An Interview with Kristina Hill on Managing the Effects of Climate Change
- Gameful: A New Secret HQ for Worldchanging Games
- Airplanes, VPVs, Faith and Latent Networks
- Resource: Walkscore Gets Street Smart, Adds a Transit Score, and Calculates Your Commute
- Book Review: Urban Interventions - Personal Projects in Public Spaces
