The Last Viridian Note
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffBy Bruce Sterling Recent events have clearly established that the character of the times has changed. The Viridian Design Movement was founded in distant 1999. After the years transpiring – various disasters, wars, financial collapses and ...
The Hot Spot
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffClimate scientists wonder why people don’t do more about global warming. Social scientists have some tough answers By Lisa Bennett Three years ago, I became obsessed with global warming. Practically overnight, my worries about its potential effects outstripped ...
Cutting Emissions in Rural China
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments Offby Jiang Gaoming Mobilizing farmers to use readily accessible, traditional bioenergy sources -- like straw -- may go a long way toward helping the country reduce its carbon footprint. Coal-mining efforts have recently been shifting from ...
Making Social Equity an Issue of Public Health
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffWe expect differences in life expectancy between countries. But how do you explain a 28 year difference in life expectancy within a single city? A city with a universal health care system? Sir Michael Marmot posed ...
Climate Futures: Predicting Where Our Actions Now Might Lead
Monday, November 17th, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffClimate foresight is a valuable strategy, both for helping direct our efforts toward coping with climate change, and for helping us fully grasp the seriousness of the crisis. Although we won't know the future until it ...
The Outquisition & The Future of The Ecovillage
Monday, November 17th, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffAwhile back, Alex Steffen posted an interesting riff speculating on the potential for a new kind of sustainability movement, “a crusade of open sharing” that would spread the brightest green practices to decaying cities and flailing ...
Graphic Series: Earthly Ideas, Week 7
Monday, November 17th, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffEditor's note: This post is part of a series. We'll be releasing one of Worldchanging ally Andy Lubershane's original comics each week until the end of the year. While many of the issues covered in the ...
Climate Futures: Predicting Where Our Actions Now Might Lead
Monday, November 17th, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffClimate foresight is a valuable strategy, both for helping direct our efforts toward coping with climate change, and for helping us fully grasp the seriousness of the crisis. Although we won't know the future until it ...
Is ‘The Old Economy of Car Dependence’ Over?
Friday, November 14th, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffSydney sprawl stretching farther than the eye can see When the financial meltdown has cooled, lenders regain their intestinal fortitude and home-building fires up again, will most of the new housing follow the late 20th century pattern ...
A New Generation of Politics in New Zealand
Thursday, November 13th, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffBy Megan Hosking “That was by far the most enjoyable political debate I have ever seen,” chirped MC Mikey Havoc. This unlikely statement was uttered as he closed the Young Leaders Debate, hosted in the New ...
Mapping the Young Farmers Movement Across America
Thursday, November 13th, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffMany of us, I'm sure, harbor romantic fantasies of taking the land, donning a pair of old jeans and becoming a farmer -- an actual productive link in the local, sustainable, community-rooted, equitable food future that ...
Photo Essay: Sustainable Neighborhoods in Malmo
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffBy Adele Peters On October 29, I had a chance to explore two internationally leading examples of sustainable urban neighborhoods in Malmo, Sweden, on a tour led by city official Trevor Graham. The tour was part of ...
Advance Market Commitments: Bringing Medicines to Developing Nations
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffMillions of residents of developing nations die every year from preventable or treatable diseases because the drugs to help them don't yet exist. Pharmaceutical companies are hesitant to develop and produce new drugs when they're unsure ...
President Obama’s Big Climate Challenge
Monday, November 10th, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffImage credit: Wikipedia As he assumes the presidency, Barack Obama must make climate-change legislation and investment in green energy top priorities. And he must be ready to take bold — and politically unpopular — action to address ...
The Geography of Hope & The Greening of Silicon Valley
Monday, November 10th, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffWhen I started research on The Geography of Hope, my global survey of solutions to the climate crisis, back in 2005, it was a kind of dare. I told myself (and my publisher) I was on ...
Graphic Series: Earthly Ideas, Week 6
Monday, November 10th, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffEditor's note: This post is part of a series. We'll be releasing one of Worldchanging ally Andy Lubershane's original comics each week until the end of the year. While many of the issues covered in the ...
Seizing the Moment to Build a Sustainable Economy
Thursday, November 6th, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffAs we headed to the polls here in the U.S., the economy, the environment, and our collective common sense told us the old ways are not working. The stumbling financial markets show the consequences of unfettered ...
Obama: the Post-Environmental President
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffWhat does the election mean for climate change and energy policy? There’s been a bit of chatter in recent weeks about whether an Obama victory would truly be as transformative as many progressives hope and expect. Some ...
Worldchanging Interview: David Moore of OpenCongress
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffWhen, six weeks ago, United States Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson asked Congress to entrust him with $700 billion of the people's money, the American public reacted with so many questions, comments, and concerns that web traffic ...
What Will Your Toast Be Tonight?
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffAwake long before I wanted to be, my body's clock suspended somewhere over Greenland, I sat in the pre-dawn silence, listened to the rain drumming on the skylight, the wind brushing tree branches against the window, ...