Worldchanging Retrospective: Day 4
Friday, September 5th, 2008 Posted in Features, Green News | Comments OffFive years ago, on October 1, we launched Worldchanging as a venue to find, discuss and imagine the world's most innovative solutions to the planet's most pressing problems. Since then, we've found a great and diverse ...
Worldchanging Retrospective: Day 3
Thursday, September 4th, 2008 Posted in Features, Green News | Comments OffFive years ago, on October 1, we launched Worldchanging as a venue to find, discuss and imagine the world's most innovative solutions to the planet's most pressing problems. Since then, we've found a great and diverse ...
The Worldchanging Retrospective: Day 2
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 Posted in Features, Green News | Comments OffFive years ago, on October 1, we launched Worldchanging as a venue to find, discuss and imagine the world's most innovative solutions to the planet's most pressing problems. Since then, we've found a great and diverse ...
The Worldchanging Retrospective
Monday, September 1st, 2008 Posted in Features, Green News | Comments OffIn the first few years as a magazine, Worldchanging and its team of reporters, writers and columnists set out on a mission to cover and communicate the world's most innovative solutions to its most pressing problems. Below ...
Seeing Climate Change Through the Trees
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Posted in Features, Green News | Comments OffYou've probably never heard of the whitebark pine, much less the tiny mountain pine beetle, but the story they tell together may be one of the clearest windows we have on how climate change is already ...
Geoengineering: A Worldchanging Retrospective
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 Posted in Features, Green News | Comments OffWorldchanging Executive Editor Alex Steffen has become a respected voice of dissent in the global conversation about geo-engineering strategies. This fall, he re-enters the debate as part of the cast of front-line innovators featured in a ...
Geoengineering: A Worldchanging Retrospective
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 Posted in Features, Green News | Comments OffWorldchanging Executive Editor Alex Steffen has become a respected voice of dissent in the global conversation about geo-engineering strategies. This fall, he re-enters the debate as part of the cast of front-line innovators featured in a ...
Spatial History and the Mannahatta Project
Monday, August 11th, 2008 Posted in Features, Green News | Comments OffTime's insights flow in both directions: anticipating the future can help us remove contemporary blinders to understand the past in new ways, and delving into the past can give us fresh perspectives on what might be ...
Your Turn to Imagine What Comes After Green
Thursday, August 7th, 2008 Posted in Features, Green News | Comments OffA few weeks ago, we asked if you would help us imagine what comes after green, to imagine the sustainable society that we both need and want to live in. Many of you responded with clever, ...
Could Globalization Be Going In Reverse?
Monday, August 4th, 2008 Posted in Features, Green News | Comments OffFor the last three decades, it's been more or less assumed that globalization was a force that moved in only one direction -- towards ever-greater integration. And due to the logic of global trade, the assumption ...
Could Globalization Be Going In Reverse?
Monday, August 4th, 2008 Posted in Features, Green News | Comments OffFor the last three decades, it's been more or less assumed that globalization was a force that moved in only one direction -- towards ever-greater integration. And due to the logic of global trade, the assumption ...
Al Gore, Clean Energy and A Better Nation
Monday, July 21st, 2008 Posted in Features, Green News | Comments OffNormally, I try to think in planetary terms and avoid parochial nationalism, so it's somewhat ironic that today a global perspective actually leads me to believe that what happens in America over the next 18 months ...
Imagine What Comes After Green
Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in Features, Green News | Comments OffThe greatest opportunity of our generation: that's what could be waiting for us, after we leave "green" behind. Saving the biosphere and spreading sustainable prosperity is going to take a lot more than doing things in ...
The Problem with Big Green
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 Posted in Features, Green News | Comments OffDo small steps actually lead anywhere? We all know the theory that small steps lead to bigger steps, which lead in turn to real change. And there are certainly a lot of small steps on offer ...
AMD and Metropolis Design Winners Announced
Thursday, June 5th, 2008 Posted in Features, Green News | Comments OffTwo major design competitions, the AMD Open Architecture Challenge and the Metropolis Magazine's NextGeneration, have announced their winners. The winning entries and honorees offer a smorgasboard of truly inspiring solutions for the future of sustainable ...
Give Your Grad a Carbon Clean Slate!
Thursday, May 8th, 2008 Posted in Features, Green News | Comments OffWhat do you get the globally conscious grad who has everything? If you're looking for something unique, you're probably stalling out somewhere between the hemp sandals and the solar-powered backpacks. We have the answer. These kind of gifts ...
Cities of the Future, Today
Friday, May 2nd, 2008 Posted in Features, Green News | Comments OffAs cool as ultra high-performance green buildings are individually, the real action is all with districts. Individual buildings may blaze paths, and as we engage in acupunctural infill (changing sprawling or underused areas into walkable, compact ...
The WorldChanging Interview: Erik Simanis
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 Posted in Features, Green News | Comments OffErik Simanis is not your average Ph.D. student. For one thing, he's done work on his degree at two separate institutions (the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School and Cornell University's Johnson School of ...
What’s No Longer Impossible?
Monday, April 14th, 2008 Posted in Features, Green News | Comments OffWith new ideas about sustainability and responsibility rapidly moving to the forefront of the discussion, things that once seemed implausible are quickly becoming a reality. We caught up with some Worldchangers at the Seattle Green ...
Neighborliness, Innovation and Sustainability
Monday, April 7th, 2008 Posted in Features, Green News | Comments OffTwo approaches have tended to define the debate about sustainable prosperity in recent years. The first is conscious consumption, which manifests at the shallow end as green shopping (even greenwashing) but can prove out at ...