Mid-Point, Poznań: Risky Business
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 Posted in Events, Green News | Comments OffPhoto courtesy Amanda Chiu A climate change demonstrator at the on going conference in Poznań, Poland by Amanda Chiu Amanda Chiu reports from the 14th Conference of Parties (COP 14) of the United Nations Framework Convention on ...
Compostmodern 2009
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 Posted in Events, Green News | Comments OffCompostmodern is beginning to roll out its 2009 line-up, and it looks like a winner. Worldchangers Dawn Danby and Joel Makower, and allies Allan Chochinov and Emily Pilloton have already been announced. That alone would make ...
Re-Imagining Cities: Urban Design After the Age of Oil
Sunday, November 9th, 2008 Posted in Events, Green News | Comments OffA number of great journalists were covering last weekend's Re-Imagining Cities: Urban Design After the Age of Oil symposium in Philadelphia. The University of Pennsylvania School of Design and Penn Institute for Urban Research hosted this ...
Video: Sustainable Innovation conference in Malmo
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 Posted in Events, Green News | Comments OffAs many of you know, Alex Steffen presented last month at the Sustainable Innovation Conference in Malmo, Sweden. Worldchanging ally Joel Mulligan attended the conference with camera in hand, and has been kind enough to share ...
Photo Essay: The 2008 World Expo
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 Posted in Events, Green News | Comments Offby Justine Bayod Espoz We encourage 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 contribute your ...
Photo Essay: The 2008 World Expo
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 Posted in Events, Green News | Comments Offby Justine Bayod Espoz We encourage 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 contribute your ...
Biomimicry at Bioneers
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 Posted in Events, Green News | Comments OffThe Bioneers conference, an old staple of the conference circuit for many greens, will once again be held two weeks from now, a little ways north of San Francisco. But this year there's an additional new ...
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 ...