Medals Per Million
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 Posted in Events, Green News | Comments OffOlympics achievement on a per capita basis. by Eric de Place Forget the showdown between the United States and China, the real battle was between the Bahamas and Iceland. Certainly nobody reported the Olympics that way, but isn't ...
NRDC Tour of Yellowstone’s Whitebark Pine Ecosystem
Thursday, August 21st, 2008 Posted in Events, Green News | Comments OffLast night, I touched down just north of Jackson Hole, Wyo., in the Grand Tetons. The landing strip -- the only airport inside of a national park -- lies just within the shadow of the jagged ...
Pop!Tech Announces 2008 Lineup
Friday, August 15th, 2008 Posted in Events, Green News | Comments OffThis October, renowned ideas summit Pop!Tech will once again bring the world's social innovation network to the seaside town of Camden, Maine. (Check out our archives for Worldchanging coverage of past Pop!Tech conferences here and here.) The ...
Letter from Tällberg: Let’s Talk about Transformation
Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in Events, Green News | Comments Off"Let's talk about transformation for a couple of minutes" says the moderator, John Kao (a San Francisco-based consultant who also plays a mean jazz piano). Apparently, that's all the time they have. At ...
Letter from Tällberg: 350? Well, Poo
Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in Events, Green News | Comments OffThe former President of Costa Rica, Jose Maria Figueres, has just congratulated another Latin American leader (a government minister in Equador -- her name is not in the program) who was recounting a success story that ...
PUSH Conference: Day One
Monday, June 16th, 2008 Posted in Events, Green News | Comments OffBy Jessica Chapman 1 p.m. The PUSH conference kicked off this morning at the Walker Art Museum in downtown Minneapolis, with short presentations by Chandran Nair, founder of the Global Institute for Tomorrow (GIFT) and Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO ...
PUSH Conference Kicks Off in Minneapolis
Sunday, June 15th, 2008 Posted in Events, Green News | Comments OffBy Jessica Chapman This is the first entry of a series of daily blogs from Jessica Chapman, who is reporting live for Worldchanging from this year's PUSH conference. The PUSH conference taking place this week in Minneapolis bills ...
Plastic Junk to Sail the Pacific
Thursday, May 29th, 2008 Posted in Events, Green News | Comments OffSeveral months ago, I returned from a life-changing month at sea with the Algalita Marine Research Foundation. We were a crew of six, aboard a 50-foot research vessel, and our mission was to survey quantities of ...