Worldchanging: Bright Green

Attention Philanthropy 2009

WorldChanging Team — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:00:00 PDT

WorldChanging Team: At Worldchanging, one of our three main missions is to practice attention philanthropy. Attention philanthropy is a gift of notice. In a noisy world,...

InSTEDD: Bringing Life Saving Tools and Technology to All

WorldChanging Team — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:45:00 PDT

WorldChanging Team: Nominated by Jim Fruchterman I want to make my gift of attention to InSTEDD, a bold nonprofit which is using technology intelligently to reduce the...

Make Your Own Attention Grant Here!

WorldChanging Team — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:40:00 PDT

WorldChanging Team: You're invited to join the Worldchanging network in Attention Philanthropy 2009 by giving the gift of attention to a person, cause or resource you think...

Baba Wam�: Award-Winning Work to End Human Trafficking

WorldChanging Team — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:35:00 PDT

WorldChanging Team: Nominated by Laurent Haug I can say I have seen my share of great ideas and people in the past four years, with close to...

A Catalogue of Extinct Experience: Renewing Our Disappearing Connections to Nature

WorldChanging Team — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:30:25 PDT

WorldChanging Team: Nominated by the TerraPass. team Our experiences shape our consciousness: who we are, who we become, the choices we make about how we spend our...

Company: Preserving Local Industry Through Innovative Design

WorldChanging Team — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:30:00 PDT

WorldChanging Team: Nominated by Bjarke Ingels I’d like to nominate the designers Aamu Song and Johan Olin, who together form Company. They have done a series of...

Growfood.org: Networking a 21st Century Food System

WorldChanging Team — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:25:07 PDT

WorldChanging Team: Nominated by Liz Kirkham Growfood.org connects a new generation with the small farm experience and facilitates apprenticeships for aspiring farmers. In 2001, when they were...

Gwynne Dyer's Climate Wars: Now a Radio Series

Hassan Masum — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:20:46 PDT

Hassan Masum: The security dimensions of climate change provide the backdrop for Dyer's Climate Wars, an unflinching look at potential geopolitical consequences of rising seas and falling...

Aron Chang: A New Plan for Suburbia

Matthew Waxman — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:00:00 PDT

Matthew Waxman: What is the future of suburbia? How should suburban populations and density grow? Aron Chang, 2009 graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, has...

Pioneer City 2030: What the Energy System of the Future Looks Like

Patrick Mazza — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:20:43 PDT

Patrick Mazza: The energy system of the future is being founded now. New energy systems and technologies are growing on an accelerating curve: • Buildings that are...

Roundup: Singularity U, Algae Power, Solar Highway and More...

WorldChanging Team — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 08:50:51 PDT

WorldChanging Team: Three Days Left to Vote on Ashoka Changemakers! Ashoka's Changemakers, an initiative to find, fund and expand the work of social entrepreneurs worldwide, has announced...

Breaking News: Husk Power Systems Wins $250K Venture Competition

Robert Katz — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:16:32 PDT

Robert Katz: Husk Power Systems, a company we profiled here on NextBillion back in October, was announced today as the winner of the Global Business Plan competition...

Alex Steffen on The Visionary Activist Show

WorldChanging Team — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:37:21 PDT

WorldChanging Team: Unique visionary activist and astrologer Caroline Casey recently interviewed Alex Steffen on The Visionary Activist radio show, a live weekly radio program broadcast by KPFA...

Carbon Tax Shift Gaining Favor Across Canada?

WorldChanging Team — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:56:05 PDT

WorldChanging Team: Posted by Anna Fahey As British Columbia acknowledges the one year anniversary of the landmark carbon tax shift policy, the revenue-neutral tax recently bumped...

Insider Voices: Human Dimensions of Low Carbon Technology

Alex Steffen — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:16:45 PDT

Alex Steffen: This is a really smart project discussing how cutting-edge climate-friendly business ventures have begun and succeeded or failed. Though it's not casual reading, it'll be...