The Post-Election is the New Election
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Movement Building and Activism | Comments OffEveryone's buzzing about what to do after November 4th to make change happen. We're collaborating on some great projects and debates. Stay tuned. Help us change the world - DONATE NOW! (Posted by Alex Steffen in Movement Building ...
An Inconvenient Youth
Thursday, October 9th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Movement Building and Activism | Comments OffWhen now high school senior Mary Doerr signed up for Al Gore's Climate Project training in 2007, she was 16, and she was surprised find out that she was one of the youngest people to ...
An Inconvenient Youth
Thursday, October 9th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Movement Building and Activism | Comments OffWhen now high school senior Mary Doerr signed up for Al Gore's Climate Project training in 2007, she was 16, and she was surprised to find out that she was one of the youngest people to ...
A Solar-Powered Pilgrim
Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Movement Building and Activism | Comments Offby Ben Block Martin Vosseler wakes each morning and walks towards the rising sun. For seven months and counting, the retired Swiss doctor has crossed the United States to discuss the merits of solar power and other ...
Scenius, Innovation and Epicenters
Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Movement Building and Activism | Comments OffAlly Kevin Kelly has a terrific piece up about Brian Eno's concept of scenius: Brian Eno suggested the word to convey the extreme creativity that groups, places or "scenes" can occasionally generate. His actual definition is: ...
One Approach To Sustainability: Work Less
Friday, June 20th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Movement Building and Activism | Comments Offby John de Graaf About six years ago, I addressed the annual state conference of the Associated Recyclers of Wisconsin, an organization of private and public waste managers. The topic of my talk, “Haste Makes Waste,” ...
Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There!
Monday, June 16th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Movement Building and Activism | Comments OffLast week over 200 people met in downtown Wellington and ‘froze’ together to help New Zealand launch the 2008 World Environment Day. According to the event’s mysterious organizer, ‘Mr Freeze’, the purpose of the Freeze ...
How to Protest in the New Millennium, and Not Get Arrested
Thursday, June 12th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Movement Building and Activism | Comments OffWhen my friend was three, her dad taught her how to climb a tree. Not for sport, but so that in case she needed to, she could stage a tree sit. This was a totally foreign ...
Common Sense, Freely Available
Monday, June 9th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Movement Building and Activism | Comments OffTom Paine is, I believe, the great forgotten hero of the American Republic. The ideas he championed, first in Revolutionary America, and then in Revolutionary France, remain the at the driving core of enlightened progress on ...
Benedict: Green Pope?
Thursday, April 17th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Movement Building and Activism | Comments Offby Gary Gardner Rumor has it that Pope Benedict may address climate change during his visit to the United Nations this week. Whether he does or not, his young papacy can claim to be the "greenest" ever. ...
Al Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize Lecture
Sunday, April 6th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Movement Building and Activism | Comments OffQuote of the day: "We must abandon the conceit that individual, isolated, private actions are the answer. ...That means adopting principles, values, laws and treaties that release creativity and initiative at every level of society..." -Al Gore, in ...
The Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Movement Building and Activism | Comments OffEthan's talk at ETech was one of my favorite parts of this year's conference. He wrote it up on his excellent personal blog, My Heart's In Accra. I think Worldchanging readers will find it funny, smart ...
Netsquared Mashup Challenge
Saturday, March 1st, 2008 Posted in Green News, Movement Building and Activism | Comments OffNetsquared is an organization devoted to connecting nonprofit organizations with Web 2.0 technologies to help them better achieve their goals. We've featured the work of Netsquared here on Worldchanging many times. We can hardly believe it ...
What are the Top Ten Questions Right Now?
Monday, February 18th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Movement Building and Activism | Comments OffEinstein once said that if you gave him an hour to solve a problem, and his life depended on getting the right answer, he would spend 55 minutes figuring out what questions to ask. "For if ...
The Digital Activist Class
Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Movement Building and Activism | Comments OffEthan makes some excellent and intriguing points here: There’s a strong overlap between the emerging middle class in the developing world and the world of citizen media. Bloggers in Africa are highly educated, and generally are wealthier ...