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Worldchanging: Bright Green
Upcoming Events in Design and a Call for Reader Reports
Amanda ReedThere are three interesting conferences coming up in the design world this month (see below for details). If you are planning to go to any...
Arctic Round-Up: New Sea Routes Opening Up, New Infrastructure Imagined, and Canada's Taking Action
Amanda ReedMelting and thinning ice in the Arctic has proceeded so rapidly that new sea routes are opening up, infrastructure is being imagined, and countries like...
Untangling the 'Environmentalist's Paradox': Is It All About Speed?
WorldChanging TeamWe need a better understanding of the 'environmentalist's paradox' - Why is human well-being improving globally when our environmental woes appear to be worsening all...
Portugal Redux: Trade Winds and Sound Policies Push Portugal to the Renewable Energy Forefront
WorldChanging TeamEditor's Note: A couple weeks ago we posted a piece by Alex Aylett reporting on Portugal's impressive percentage of renewable electricity supply. Below, we revisit...
Crisis Commons, and the Challenges of Distributed Disaster Response
Ethan ZuckermanHeather Blanchard, Noel Dickover and Andrew Turner from Crisis Commons visited the Berkman Center Tuesday to discuss the rapidly growing technology and crisis response space....
Residential Solar, Investing in the Environment, and Cargo Bikes
WorldChanging TeamLooking back one, two and five years ago today on Worldchanging: 2009 Solar Panels To Boost Property Prices Joe Romm argues that "as peak oil...
Passive Building of the Week: Lodenareal Housing
Amanda ReedMichael Eliason and Aaron Yankauskas, of Brute Force Collaborative, have a great case-study up on a recently completed 'Passivhaus' housing project in the Lodenareal complex...
Big Green Boxes: A "Hub-and-Spoke Model" for City Farming
Amanda ReedGrist has a new series of interviews up on people who are working to change America's food system in inspiring ways. Yesterday they posted an...
Fuel Efficiency for Low-Income Homes, Gapminder, and The Human Storm
WorldChanging TeamLooking back one, two and five years ago today on Worldchanging: 2009 The Cruel Cost of Clunkers Suzie Boss reports on the hidden social cost...
FOUR YEARS.GO. - A New Campaign to Shift the Trends of Humanity
Amanda ReedThe time to act on climate change is now. In that light, a new campaign called FOUR YEARS.GO. has been started to inspire action towards...
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