After a long hiatus we are coming back. In September my organization, Architecture for Humanity acquired Worldchanging and all its assets. Starting in November we will begin to merge this site with O...
Its been seven years in the making, but the new Worldchanging book is finally here. Now we need your help this week getting this young book on its feet. Not only do initial sales often determine how ...
Orange is the new green. "The new green" is a cliche, but in this case, its true: within the 600 pages of the new Worldchanging book, youll find the global sustainability movement redefined. ...
Looking for a speaker for your upcoming conference, meeting or lecture series? Alex Steffen (Worldchangings co-founder and editor, for those just joining us) is well known as a writer, editor and blo...
We have some news. Seven years ago, Alex Steffen and Jamais Cascio started Worldchanging with the intention of providing access to the tools, models and ideas for building a better future. They wante...
We are extremely pleased to be able to announce the new edition of Worldchanging: A Users Guide for the 21st Century, to be released this spring (and already available for discount pre-order at Powel...
In 2008 Alex spoke at the Danish Architecture Centre in Copenhagen about what we should be doing culturally and politically to transform our societies and cities to respond to our great global challe...
In 2009 Alex spoke at Yale University about "Building a Bright Green Future that Works" in which he shows how the tools to transform our cities and suburbs into sustainably prosperous communi...
In 2009 Alex spoke at Town Hall Seattle over the course of two nights about how cities are the fulcrum point for leveraging a bright green future and how Seattle specifically could lead the way by ta...
In 2006 Alex spoke at Pop!Tech about how the biggest barriers to building a sustainable planet are political, not technological. Here, he offers an actionable task list of challenges, ideas, products...
This years Human Development Index (HDI) came out last week and it was full of good news. The HDI started out 20 years ago to provide a way of indexing development and progress that gives a fuller pi...
Congratulations to our team mates at Worldchanging Canada, who have just celebrated four years of great Canada-focused content. All month theyll be looking back at some of the best stuff theyve publi...
Thank you to everyone who came out to see our "State of the Future" talk at Town Hall Seattle last night. The audience was great and the questions were thought-provoking. It was a great eveni...
In 2007 Alex spoke at TED about creating a sustainable future, particularly in response to the challenges of worldwide inequalities in quality of life and ecological footprint. "We dont know yet ...
Alison Killing reports on an exciting new closed loop paper-to-wood product. Kranthout ("newspaper wood" in Dutch) is a new product that has been developed by Mieke Meijer for design company ...
Patrick M. Condon, the James Taylor Chair in Landscape and Liveable Environments at the University of British Columbia, has just written a new book Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities: Design Str...
Tickets are still available -- only $5 at Brown Paper Tickets! If youre in Seattle, we look forward to seeing you this evening at Town Hall! Help us change the world - DONATE NOW! (Posted by WorldCha...
New Computer Game Simulates Challenges of Global Warming A British company has developed a new computer game that allows players to save the planet from the effects of global warming — at least in a ...
Hermann Scheer, pioneering German Parliamentarian and renewable energy advocate, died earlier this month. Scheer was the driving force behind Germanys Renewable Energy Act, thanks to which Germany la...
Please join us at Town Hall Seattle this Wednesday night to hear Executive Editor Alex Steffen give a talk on "The State of the Future." Tickets are only $5 and are available at Brown Paper T...
Worldchanging ally and former contributor David Zaks is a finalist in Ecovers "30 Under 30" contest, which honors thirty people under thirty years old who have made a difference in protecting...
by Warren Karlenzig China Pavilion, 2010 Shanghai World Expo (Copyright Flickr photographer: penphoto) The Shanghai Expo officially closed yesterday with pomp, circumstance, and a confirmation of the...
by Jonathan Watts After the failure of the Copenhagen climate talks, a successful agreement to protect biodiversity has provided a timely morale booster and restores faith in the United Nations. Dele...
New York City is once again leading the way in sustainably planning for the future with forward thinking infrastructure development plans. The New York City Green Infrastructure Plan aims to reduce c...
Bill Gates in Rolling Stone on climate neutrality: "We dont really grasp the scale of the problem were facing," Gates tells me in his office overlooking Lake Washington in Seattle. "The r...
The Living Planet Report, produced by WWF and its partners, shows that humanity’s demands still outstrip the world’s natural resources – a trend likely to worsen, unless leading countries begin to pr...
Rio acari marmoset (Mico acariensis), one of the new species found in the Amazon. | via The Guardian Researchers discovered more than 1,200 new species of plants and animals in the Amazon during the ...
South Africa Unveils Plans for Worlds Biggest Solar Power Plant: Giant Mirrors and Solar Panels in Northern Cape Would Reduce Carbon Emissions and Generate One-Tenth of the Countrys Energy Needs Jona...
Will space tourism be a major climate change propellant? A new study reported in Nature finds that the impacts of a commercial space industry could be serious, even catastrophic: [E]missions from 1,0...
“How can forward thinking-design transform backwards-looking buildings?” That’s the question Metropolis’s Next Generation Design Competition is asking applicants to address with a design that gives a...
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