Worldchanging Retrospective: Finale
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | 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 ...
Combining Smart Grids and Product Service Systems
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Joy Green in March 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. What happens when disruptive ideas combine? We’ve heard a lot about distributed energy generation and smart grids ...
Worldchanging Interview: Influential Thinker Clay Shirky
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Jon Lebkowsky in March 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. Clay Shirky is an influential writer, consultant, and teacher focused on the Internet as a ...
Optimism is a Political Act
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Alex Steffen in March 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. I've written before about my belief that in times like these, optimism is a powerful political ...
Moving From Rhetoric to Reality: Clean, Green Jobs
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Joel Makower in March 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. The promise of the green economy and the clean-tech revolution is that they will bring a ...
Solastalgia and the Mental Affects of Climate Change
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Sanjay Khanna in March 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. A small yet growing body of evidence suggests that how people think and feel is being ...
Cool Hybrids, Smart Grids and Renewable Energy
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Alex Steffen in January 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. This is interesting: In an analysis of the potential impacts of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles projected for ...
Green Building, Compact Communities
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Alex Steffen in March 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. Here's a debate where none is needed: the argument about whether green building, compact communities, or ...
Seeing Chinook as Indicators
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Alex Steffen in March 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. To get a sense of how complex and tangled the task is of managing the planet, ...
Climate Change is a Problem We Can Choose to Tackle
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Saul Griffith in March 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. Saul Griffith is a remarkable guy: inventor, entrepreneur, Squid Labs, ThinkCycle and Instructables founder, columnist, genius ...
Zero Impact Within Our Lifetimes
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Alex Steffen in January 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. The time has come to reconcile ourselves with a fundamental truth. Most of us were ...
Social Software, Digital Activism and Cute Cats
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Alex Steffen in February 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. Ethan's talk at ETech was one of my favorite parts of this year's conference. He wrote ...
Worldchanging Interview: HelioVolt CEO B.J. Stanbery
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Jon Lebkowsky in March 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. Austin-based HelioVolt Corporation has raised over $100 million in investment capital to finance production of ...
Ethanol: A 20th Century Solution
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Alan AtKisson in February 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. My ethanol car is not looking so good these days. I don't mean the scratch on ...
Reducing the Impact of Metals
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Alex Steffen in February 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. I'd love some help thinking something through. Jer's December post Your Stuff: If It Isn't Grown, It ...
Setting a Price on Carbon
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Alex Steffen in February 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. Climate change is obviously an issue we pay a lot of attention to. But there are ...
Systems that Enable the Future We Want
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Alex Steffen in February 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. Infrastructure bores us. Most people in the developed world spend a significant portion of their incomes ...
Re-Shirt: Reimaging the Cotton T
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Sanjay Khanna in February 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. By Sanjay Khanna On a summer day, walk down a typical street in almost any city in ...
Designing with Peak Population in Mind
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Alex Steffen in February 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. Sometime in the latter half of this century, human population will peak. Having swelled to a ...
Home Delivery and the Bright Green Urban Experience
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Alex Steffen in February 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. Most North Americans think of shopping and driving as fundamentally paired activities. After five decades of ...