Ray LaHood and Changing our Thinking About Transportation
Today, the U.S. Senate will hold a confirmation hearing on the president-elect's choice of Ray LaHood for Secretary of Transportation. No one expects that hearing to be anything but easy for LaHood. That's too bad, because it shows that when...
Sign our letter to Obama today. On November 6, two days after the United States elected Barack Obama to be its next president, we launched a campaign called Inaugurate Change. We asked readers in the U.S. and around the world...
Field Notes of an Accidental Eco-Tourist: Part I Costa Rica would probably not be my first choice for the first totally workfree holiday I’ve taken in three years, and the Central Pacific coast wouldn’t be my first choice in Costa...
This isn't just about carbon ... it turns out that cap and trade could be the largest economic redistribution program the US has ever seen. I attended a symposium a few weeks ago at Evergreen State College about preparing our...
The trillion dollar question: What will the next iteration of American infrastructure look like? Yesterday I sat in on a press teleconference with the three co-chairs of the bipartisan coalition Building America's Future: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Pennsylvania Governor...
Worldchanging contributor Jeremy Faludi's theoretical design and thoughts on eco-labels have appeared in two new books. We suggest checking them out: Packaging Sustainability: Tools, Systems and Strategies for Innovative Package...
I’ve been blogging these past few weeks about infrastructure and how we understand and misunderstand it. It’s my suspicion that we look at infrastructures like the global internet and assume...
Building more sustainable cities is going to take a lot of work. Living a one-planet lifestyle, in a one-planet city implies that we’ve halted our outpouring of climate changing...
As policy makers in Washington D.C. continue working on the anticipated U.S. economic stimulus package, leading thinkers from all corners of the sustainability movement are building their cases for taking...
When Worldchanging Executive Editor Alex Steffen isn't here in our Seattle office, he's often on the road, inspiring crowds with powerful tales of where we are and where we're going...
by David Lehr Energy poverty in the developing world is a complex and ongoing problem with serious impacts on health, economic growth, and the overall environment. The impact on the...
Image credit: WikipediaEcosystem markets, exchanges of nature's various services, are adding new dimensions to conservation. In addition to using regulation to restrict development, more countries are turning to the invisible...
The covering of the Cheonggyecheon River and the building of an elevated freeway over it in the 1970s represented the height of social progress in Seoul, Korea at the...
by Paul Rogat Loeb Like most Americans, I’m guarding my dollars, but when my furnace died during Seattle’s coldest winter in decades, I needed to replace it. And when I...
As many of our readers know, Worldchanging's Alex Steffen has brought the message of big-picture, bright green change to audiences around the world, from Toronto to New Zealand. He has...
The immense gap between the world’s rich and poor has finally become a topic of serious discussion throughout the developed world, reaching even into G-8 meetings (although not the U.S...
Our allies at GOOD Magazine recently published an issue devoted to the State of the Planet. If you haven't yet had a chance to pick one up, we urge you...
This week's flooding was devastating for families in Western Washington, and people all over the Puget Sound region are working to bring relief to people in need. In the months...
Breaking our dependence on fossil fuels isn't only a solution for halting our climate changing emissions, it's also about gaining energy independence and being cautious about when we reach peak...
During the conflict between Russia and Georgia this past summer, my friend Evgeny Morozov decided to study the dynamics of “cyberwar” by becoming a partisan. He lurked on Russian-language bulletin...
The chief project of humanity has long been fulfilling basic material necessities: clean water, food, warmth, clothing, healing, transportation and livelihood. In the face of such immense needs, no one...
The real cost is the cost of doing nothing. That's always the mantra: serious climate policy is too pricey, especially in this economy. To that I say: watch this excellent video...
Economic stimulus through energy efficiency. Here's your economic stimulus idea for today: condensing flue gas waste heat recovery. With a name like that, it has to be good. And it...
Photo courtesy Jason Houston Five local banks have printed more than 2 million Berkshare notes since 2006. The 10 Berkshare note features Robyn Van En, a local pioneer of...
Over at The WELL, Worldchanging Ally #1 Bruce Sterling is delivering his annual assessment of the world, and by all counts, 2009 is rife with material. Our own Jon Lebkowsky...
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