Toward a New American Infrastructure
Friday, January 9th, 2009 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffThe trillion dollar question: What will the next iteration of American infrastructure look like? Yesterday I sat in on a press teleconference with the three co-chairs of the bipartisan coalition Building America's Future: California Governor Arnold ...
Delivering Messages Through Art: The Canary Project
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffThere are times when a problem is so big we might not even recognize its importance at first. Maybe we are too distracted, too busy, or for whatever reason just not receiving the message. But perhaps ...
Graphic Series: Earthly Ideas, Week 13
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffEditor's note: This post is part of a series featuring Worldchanging ally Andy Lubershane's original graphics. While many of the issues covered in the comics have been discussed on Worldchanging in the past, we hope that ...
USDA Office of Ecosystem Services and Markets
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffAs people around the world await the inauguration of U.S. President-Elect Barack Obama on January 20, it seems that every week brings news and controversy that heightens expectations for 2009 to be a turning point in ...
Climate Will Change Everything
Monday, January 5th, 2009 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffFrom the discovery of intelligent life somewhere else to a web-based revolution in education, certain future milestones seem to hold the power to change everything that happens afterward. The online intellectual forum The Edge recently posted ...
What if Climate Change is Not an Energy Problem?
Monday, December 29th, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffHere's a thought I've been kicking around, and I'd like your ideas. What if, contrary to conventional wisdom, climate change is not actually primarily an energy problem, and by thinking of it as an energy problem, ...
Chu, Browner, Holdren, Lubchenco: the Climate Superfriends
Friday, December 26th, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffWe need strong U.S. leadership on climate change, especially as we head into next year's COP-15 talks. President-elect Obama has already spoken more boldly (by far) on climate change than almost any other American elected official: There ...
Harvesting the Ocean: A New Approach to Wave Energy Conversion
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffBy Tyler Seed While much attention on renewables in recent years has focussed on solar and wind technologies, awareness has been growing around the enormous energy generating potential of the Earth's oceans. A 2005 report from ...
Graphic Series: Earthly Ideas, Week 12
Tuesday, December 23rd, 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 ...
Food, Fuel and Fiber? The Challenge of Using the Earth to Grow Energy
Monday, December 22nd, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffIn May of 2008, while visiting Jakarta, I came across a newspaper story about a protest there. Hundreds of people had gathered in front of the gates of a charitable NGO whose mission was to ...
Design Roundup: Designing Products for Sustainable Use
Friday, December 19th, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffBy Adele Peters When someone mentions ‘sustainable product design,’ the first thing that comes to mind may be products that are made with renewable materials, or materials that can be used in a closed technical loop. Of ...
Invidividual Action vs Collective Action
Thursday, December 18th, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffA continuing debate erupts within the environmental movement about the relative merits of individual versus collective action. Back in 2007, on the subject of individual action, The New York Times columnist Tom Friedman wrote, You can ...
Essay From Chile: Censo de Aves / The Bird Census
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffLast week, I was fed up with the city. The crowds of people, the hours spent on the subway, and the time wasted in front of a slow computer. Don't get me wrong; Santiago de Chile ...
Evolution of the Web
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffThe Radical Tech blog at Fast Company features a set of expert predictions on the evolution of the web in 2009. Some of the predictions are no-brainers (more emphasis on user experience, standards for authentication and ...
Graphic Series: Earthly Ideas, Week 11
Tuesday, December 16th, 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 ...
Worldchanging Concepts for Alternative Gift Giving
Monday, December 15th, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffWe recently published our Worldchanging Holiday Gift Guide, a list of ideas for giving that we felt were useful, functional and educational. As we have mentioned before, the holiday season and gift-giving in general presents many ...
Reader Report: Notes from Greenbuild 2008
Monday, December 15th, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments Offby Morgan Greenseth On November 19 the Greenbuild 2008 conference kicked off in Boston, Mass. Approximately 30,000 people from all around the world attended the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) event, which featured four days of discussions, ...
Sea Level Rise: We Decide How Much
Friday, December 12th, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments Off<p class="zemanta-img-attribution" Without international political action to cap carbon emissions, the warming climate will cause the ice caps, icebergs and glaciers of the earth to melt, raising global sea level. This poses a serious threat to ...
Giant Asteroids and International Security
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffImage credit: flickr/goldenrectangle, Creative Commons license. A panel of international scientists has suggested that the UN start preparing for a global defense against the threat of asteroids on collision courses with Earth. Though a large asteroid collision ...
Urban ReVision: Envisioning a Sustainable City Block in Texas
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffOn December 5, our allies at Urban Re:Vision joined forces with the City of Dallas, Texas to host a planning session for an incredibly ambitious green building project. The day-long charrette brought together city officials, urban ...