Jon LebkowskyMatt Parker at politicalaffairs.net says he believes "we're in the middle of a massive reengagement of the American working class," and gives moveon.org as an...

Ethan ZuckermanOvermundo is a truly remarkable website dedicated to the arts and culture in Brazil. The site was commissioned to solve an interesting problem - to...

Regine DebattyI've been writing about Lalya Gaye's work over and over again ever since i started to blog. She's one of those few people who seem...

Sarah RichThe capital city is having a green streak this fall, from the National Building Museum's sustainable architecture and design exhibition, The Green House, to the...

Joel MakowerPerhaps the most provocative statement on business and society during the past half-century came in an article in the New York Times, written by a man named Friedman. Of course, I’m talking about Milt, not Tom.

WorldChanging TeamIn an effort to raise public awareness of Iceland's recent return to commercial whaling after a 20-year hiatus, the World Society for the Protection of...

Mike MillikinData presented in the peer-reviewed new State of the Arctic analysis released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration suggest a sustained period of warming...

Chad MonfredaThere’s no denying modern medicine’s success. In wealthy countries, more people live longer, healthier lives than anytime in history. There’s been, however, plenty of denying...

Joel MakowerGreenBuild 2007, the U.S. Green Building Conference's annual shindig, has just ended in Denver, Colorado, with some 12,000 professionals traversing a jam-packed schedule on everything from daylighting to displaced communities. Here are some of the things I learned -- from more than a thousand miles away.

Robert KatzCan the world’s largest information technology company, IBM, stay innovative and agile in the fastest of fast-moving sectors? My gut reaction is no, but Big...

Sarah RichLast spring, Emeka Okafor wrote a guest piece for us highlighting the importance -- especially in the developing world -- of gardening with native vegetables...

Alex SteffenCreative Commons has been a frequent subject of discussion here on Worldchanging, and with good reason: the Creative Commons license has changed the world's understanding...

Sarah RichHere are a few from friends and supporters. The Church at Berkeley Ed Burtynsky Ed Burtynsky Ron Dembo, zerofootrpint Thanks, Hamish!...

Jon LebkowskyTesla never quite pulled it off, but a group of contemporary physicists are developing wireless energy transmission using "'resonance,' a phenomenon that causes an object...

David ZaksJonathan Koomey led the Energy End-use Forecasting group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which analyzes markets for efficient products and technologies for improving the energy...

Sarah RichI just took electronic delivery of a newly released anthology published by The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA) in...

Sarah RichYesterday in San Francisco, a new kind of bank opened its doors. New Resource Bank is a small commercial bank established with the sole mission...

Robert KatzPaul Braund is Co-Founder of RIOS Institute (Research and Innovation for Organizations and Societies Institute) in Berkeley and Silicon Valley, California. He has twenty years'...

Hassan MasumWhy do I like Thomas Homer-Dixon's The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization so much? Because there are few if any other books which talk about energy, society's robustness to breakdowns, climate change, biodiversity, terrorism, the inappropriateness of GDP as the default measure of progress, and more in a sensitive, contextualized, way. With chapter-size overviews that are detailed enough to be informative, yet digestible enough to be interesting. With a single unifying theme: interconnected stresses are building up which our societal dispositions and structures are ill-equipped to handle, yet which could trigger more creative and robust cultures that help us build a better world for the future.

Sarah RichLast night we had our Chicago book event at the Shedd Aquarium. This place is amazing! The Shedd's been around since 1930, housed in a...