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This Week on Worldchanging Seattle

Friday, August 1st, 2008 Posted in Cities, Green News | Comments Off

The new Seattle blog is coming along great, with some wonderful new local contributors on board. This week's headlines ranged from public health to shopping bags. Check out what's new: A Tool for Building Healthier Public ...

Headlines from Worldchanging Seattle

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 Posted in Cities, Green News | Comments Off

As we've mentioned, we are working on the upcoming launch of our new locally focused blog, Worldchanging Seattle. Though we know you read Worldchanging from all around the globe, we think that local insights could add ...

Reader Report From the World Cities Summit

Friday, July 18th, 2008 Posted in Cities, Green News | Comments Off

By Zufan* Editor's Note: We encourage "Reader Reports" -- submissions from members of Worldchanging's global audience who volunteer to write up their notes from conferences, workshops and other worldchanging happenings they participate in. If you'd like to ...

San Francisco Goes Wireless and Real-Time to Reduce Traffic

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 Posted in Cities, Green News | Comments Off

Check your smartphone to find a parking meter. By Adam Stein When I last wrote about San Francisco’s innovative plan to reduce congestion through market-based pricing of parking spots, I assumed some of the more futuristic features of ...

Book Review: Verb Crisis

Friday, May 2nd, 2008 Posted in Cities, Green News | Comments Off

Verb Crisis, edited by Mario Ballesteros, Albert Ferré, Irene Hwang, Michael Kubo, Tomoko Sakamoto, Anna Tetas and Ramon Prat. Design by Twopoints.net (Amazon UK and ) USA Publisher Actar says: Verb Crisis examines architectural ...

Highlights from the 7th EcoCity World Summit

Monday, April 28th, 2008 Posted in Cities, Green News | Comments Off

"In order to transform our cities, we need to move from ego-culture to eco-culture." —Rusong Wang President, Ecological Society of China The EcoCity World Summit (see my intro here) wrapped up on Saturday afternoon in San Francisco. An ...

Highlights from the 7th EcoCity World Summit

Monday, April 28th, 2008 Posted in Cities, Green News | Comments Off

"In order to transform our cities, we need to move from ego-culture to eco-culture." —Rusong Wang President, Ecological Society of China The EcoCity World Summit (see my intro here) wrapped up on Saturday afternoon in San Francisco. An ...

The City is the Solution: The EcoCity World Summit

Thursday, April 24th, 2008 Posted in Cities, Green News | Comments Off

"Cities are part of what it means to be human. We need to build cities as much as birds need to build nests. And if we want to have a future, then EcoCities must ...

Someone Invent a Better City Ranking!

Thursday, February 21st, 2008 Posted in Cities, Green News | Comments Off

A couple weeks ago, Popular Science released a list of the greenest 50 U.S. cities, to a predictable amount of bloggage and debate about whether Portland is really all that. But something important's been missed in the ...