Putting People in the Map
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Chad Monfreda in January 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. The maps we make of the world say a lot about how we think of ourselves ...
Debating the Fate of Declining Suburbs
Friday, September 26th, 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. I've been thinking about the fate of declining suburbs, bombed out shrinking old industrial cities and ...
The Truth About Cars, the Potential of Cities
Friday, September 26th, 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. Today's cars are costly, dangerous and an ecological nightmare. What if the solution to the problems ...
Finding Solutions for Reducing Food Waste
Friday, September 26th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Erica Barnett in January 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. Every year, more than a quarter of the food in the United States' food system ...
The Paradox of Global Innovation: The People’s Car Comes to India
Friday, September 26th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Sanjay Khanna in January 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. The launch on January 10, 2008, of the US$2,500.00 Tata Nano “People’s Car” is a watershed ...
Design School for Decision Makers
Friday, September 26th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Justus Stewart in January 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. To walk down the streets of a major US city is to experience the impacts of ...
Shearing Shares: Community Supported Wool
Friday, September 26th, 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. We're fans of knowing where the things in your life came from, and where they're going ...
Fully Wrapping Our Heads Around the Collapse Scenario
Friday, September 26th, 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. Kim Stanley Robinson makes a point I made elsewhere, but much more clearly: "It’s a failure of ...
“Shared Space” Traffic Management
Friday, September 26th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Erica Barnett in January 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. Recently, my city (Seattle) decided to put the brakes on red-light scofflaws by installing 19 more ...
Key Concepts: Stabilization Levels and Peak Targets
Friday, September 26th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Alex Steffen in January 2007. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. The difference between greenhouse gas (GHG) stabilization levels and GHG peak targets is one we've failed ...
Learning Green Design: The Okala Guide
Friday, September 26th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Jeremy Faludi in January 2007. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. Are you a designer just getting interested in eco-design and are looking for a place to ...
Gathering Our Collective Will
Thursday, September 25th, 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 evidence indicates we've aimed too high -- that the safe upper limit for atmospheric CO2 ...
Worldchanging’s Best Foreign Correspondents
Thursday, September 25th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Alex Steffen in December 2007. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. We have a global network of writers, but a handful of them are regular columnists and ...
Designing for the Future Versions of Ourselves
Thursday, September 25th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Jeremy Faludi in December 2007. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. Many unpleasant byproducts of today's design industry last thousands of years; but what things do we ...
The Unintended Consequences of Urbanism
Thursday, September 25th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Alex Steffen in December 2007. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. I'm in Barcelona, where I delivered a talk on sustainability and the future for the Centre ...
Bike-Sharing in Barcelona
Thursday, September 25th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Erica Barnett in December 2007. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. These people are riding bicycles provided by Bicing, a nine-month-old service that bills itself as ...
Thinglink: Linking People to the Stories of Things
Thursday, September 25th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by the WorldChanging Team in November 2007. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. [DOTT 07 explores how to tackle big problems by blending leading-edge design thinking with ...
Climate Change and the Need for Responsible Education Reform
Thursday, September 25th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by WorldChanging Guest Blogger Elin Kelsey in November 2007. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. "Spray the farm!" a young boy screams, trying desperately to wrench the ...
A Preliminary Worry, Post-Olympics
Thursday, September 25th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Mara Hvistendahl in November 2007. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. As an amateur runner in Shanghai's half-marathon on Sunday, I wasn't overly concerned with my ...
The Green Computing Update
Thursday, September 25th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Jeremy Faludi in November 2007. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. This is the last installment in our green computing update. Part 1 dealt with data ...