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WorldChanging: European Union Poised to Increase Recycling

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:53:44 GMT

Legislators on the European Parliament's Environment Committee overwhelmingly supported reforms earlier this year that would halt the steady rise in the region's garbage.
Submited by meryn 20, November 2008

WorldChanging: Innovation from Constraint (the extended dance mix)

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:28:42 GMT

Submited by cyskonsyght 20, November 2008

Member Driven Advocacy Groups - WorldChanging

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:07:29 GMT

Alex Steffen has the concept of an open source organization at least a couple of years before I do, although I'm not sure how well the model will work at a national scale.
Submited by danielbachhuber 20, November 2008

WorldChanging: Al Gore, Clean Energy and A Better Nation

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:53:57 GMT

Existence is the ultimate proof of the possible.
Submited by meryn 20, November 2008

WorldChanging: Californians are Climate Trendsetters

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:53:56 GMT

It makes you wonder what actions the rest of the country would get behind if Cali-style forward-thinking was coming as loud and as clear from more leaders on the national stage.
Submited by meryn 20, November 2008

WorldChanging: The Problem with Big Green

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:53:55 GMT

To create lasting change, groups working for environmental change should be targeting the intrinsic set of values that motivates the public, rather than tantalizing their extrinsic desires.
Submited by meryn 20, November 2008

WorldChanging: Imagine What Comes After Green

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:53:51 GMT

Saving the biosphere and spreading sustainable prosperity is going to take a lot more than doing things in a more environmentally-conscious manner; it's going to demand we remake much of our material civilization.
Submited by meryn 20, November 2008

WorldChanging: U.S. Environmentalists Finally Have a Leader

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:53:50 GMT

Climate change will not solve itself with small steps that treat carbon dioxide as just another pollutant. A successful mass movement must set its sights high and settle for nothing less than a new economy. Gore has done just that.
Submited by meryn 20, November 2008

WorldChanging: Bike, Meet the City. City, This is the Bike.

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:53:51 GMT

As citizens around the world raise the demand for human-powered transportation infrastructure, major cities are starting to re-imagine their car-centric transportation models.
Submited by meryn 20, November 2008

WorldChanging: Here Comes Everybody

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:53:48 GMT

Here Comes Everybody provides a much-needed map for people who want to operate in this new social space, where the rules are both subtly and radically different.
Submited by meryn 20, November 2008

WorldChanging: Resilient Community

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:53:47 GMT

If the crash comes, individuals and local communities are not going to be in any position to weather it through their own actions, no matter what they do.
Submited by meryn 20, November 2008

WorldChanging: U.K. Committee Supports Personal Carbon Trading

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:53:45 GMT

A personal carbon-trading scheme would likely be welcomed by the growing number of U.K. residents who are voluntarily reducing their carbon footprints or purchasing carbon credits to offset their emissions.
Submited by meryn 20, November 2008

WorldChanging: Tokyo's Climate Change Leadership

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:53:42 GMT

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG) is tackling global warming with new initiatives. These innovative and comprehensive initiatives seem to say, "Municipalities lead Japan!"
Submited by meryn 20, November 2008

WorldChanging: Missing the Market Meltdown

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:53:42 GMT

Nuclear expansion buys two to 10 times less climate protection per dollar, far slower than its winning competitors.
Submited by meryn 20, November 2008

WorldChanging: Intent Shapes Environment, Environment Shapes Life

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:53:40 GMT

What happens if your intent is to create a wonderful place to live? Intent shapes the environment. Environment shapes life.
Submited by meryn 20, November 2008

WorldChanging: Cap and Caulk: How Smart Climate Policy Can Cut Our Energy Costs

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:53:39 GMT

Cap and Caulk [...] reduces the regressive effects of high energy prices even while it tempers emissions. Along the way, it yields healthier and more comfortable dwellings and generates a modest stream of green-collar jobs.
Submited by meryn 20, November 2008

WorldChanging: "B" is for Beneficial: The B Corporation

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:53:39 GMT

B Corporation is a certification for business that are “purpose-driven” and that want to create benefits for all stakeholders (employees, the community, the environment, ect.), not just shareholders
Submited by meryn 20, November 2008

WorldChanging: Interview with Mark Anielski

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:53:28 GMT

Whether in measuring a sense of community or valuing ecosystem goods and services, better measures of progress can align us on the targets that really matter.
Submited by meryn 20, November 2008

WorldChanging: More Choice for Women Means More Sustainability

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:53:28 GMT

More, published Thursday by Island Press, explores the link between population and the environment through the lens of sexual relations and women's efforts to influence the timing of their reproduction.
Submited by meryn 20, November 2008

WorldChanging: No More Coal?

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:53:27 GMT

Estimates of the global subsidy to the coal industry range from tens to hundreds of billions of dollars per year.
Submited by meryn 20, November 2008

WorldChanging: Joshua Farley, Ecological Economist

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:53:27 GMT

The reason people believe our demand for consumer goods is insatiable is because we use consumer goods to try and satisfy needs they are not capable of satisfying.
Submited by meryn 20, November 2008

WorldChanging: Who Will Tell the People? And How?

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:53:26 GMT

I'm not sure it's too much of an overstatement to say that what's needed is not just some issue education but a national mind-blowing.
Submited by meryn 20, November 2008

WorldChanging: Measuring Genuine Progress

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:53:17 GMT

Happiness is a much harder equation than GDP, and something that global systems don't spend a lot of time concerning themselves with fulfilling today.
Submited by meryn 20, November 2008

WorldChanging: International Agricultural Assessment: We Need a Paradigm Shift

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:53:14 GMT

A commission of international agriculture experts unveiled a series of reports on Wednesday calling for an end to "business-as-usual" farming practices to avoid widespread environmental degradation and increasing food scarcity.
Submited by meryn 20, November 2008

WorldChanging: Old King Coal: Why the World Needs a Coal Power Moratorium

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:53:14 GMT

The only practical way to keep CO2 below or close to the “dangerous level” is to phase out coal use during the next few decades, except where CO2 is captured and sequestered.
Submited by meryn 20, November 2008

Open Source is Worldchanging

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:53:10 GMT

Among Open Source developers and devotees, there's been a growing awareness of its impact as a philosophy and practice that extends beyond the world of software development and distribution.
Submited by meryn 20, November 2008

Education: Connecting the Lonely Profession

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:51:54 GMT

Submited by meryn 20, November 2008

WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: A Global View of Peopled Nature

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:51:35 GMT

Today, domestication does not stop with species but rather extends to entire landscapes, biomes, and even entire continents.
Submited by meryn 20, November 2008

WorldChanging: Geothermal Heat Pumps

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:51:35 GMT

It's not quite a renewable system, although the power requirements are sufficiently low as to make geothermal heat pumps a viable pairing with solar and/or wind generation.
Submited by meryn 20, November 2008

WorldChanging: Book review: “The Bottom Billion” by Paul Collier

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:50:41 GMT

While Collier’s work is significantly more nuanced than most popular books on development economics, he’s not exactly shy or soft-spoken.
Submited by meryn 20, November 2008

WorldChanging: The Politics of Optimism

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:50:15 GMT

[Our best hope lies an optimism] that's willing to confront the impossibility lobby and its messengers and make very clear that a feeble, halting response is not the rational or responsible response, but a corrupt and morally bankrupt response.
Submited by meryn 20, November 2008

WorldChanging: The Future of Philanthropy: Innovation, Networks, Thought Leaders and the Fringe

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:50:07 GMT

Good philanthropy, it seems to me, funds innovation that would otherwise never emerge, and supports action where none would otherwise be taken.
Submited by meryn 20, November 2008

WorldChanging: Al Gore, the Nobel Prize and the End of the Beginning

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:50:08 GMT

Our central mission must evolve into creating a networked movement of people and institutions who are working together to imagine, describe, plan and build a sustainable society.
Submited by meryn 20, November 2008

WorldChanging: Can We Solve It Like This? Why the We Campaign Needs Change.

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:50:08 GMT

It's a shame that actual systems shift is difficult to find in the campaign, and that a lack of imagination in the content is apparently being met by a lack of innovation in the delivery.
Submited by meryn 20, November 2008

WorldChanging: Neighborliness, Innovation and Sustainability

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:50:09 GMT

Bright green lives will not look like the lives we live today. That doesn't mean that they'll be less attractive. On the contrary. If we do it right both our quality of life and our measurable prosperity may increase dramatically.
Submited by meryn 20, November 2008

WorldChanging: Meat and the Biofuels Debate

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:50:09 GMT

Meat is the elephant in the room. Farmed animals in the USA are eating 70 percent of its grain production. It's estimated that the grain fed to food animals in the USA could instead feed 800 million humans.
Submited by meryn 20, November 2008

WorldChanging: Is Capitalism Growing More Socially Conscious?

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:49:57 GMT

As long as investors can maintain a good conscience without sacrificing profits, socially responsible investing is likely to flourish. But society and the environment will ultimately benefit most from their enlightened self-interest.
Submited by meryn 20, November 2008

WorldChanging San Francisco: Green Coworking: Interview with Chris Messina and Ivan Storck of Citizen Space

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:49:39 GMT

Submited by tizzle 22, November 2008

WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: It’s cute. It’s orange. It’s got bunny ears -- An update on the One Laptop Per Child project

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:18:35 GMT

Submited by J__1 22, November 2008

WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:38:16 GMT

Submited by davidhogg 21, November 2008

WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: CanadaChanging: Community, by Karl Schroeder

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:51:38 GMT

A very interesting story of Canada's north, and what "community" means in the face of technological advantages; collaborative spaces are tools...they MUST be connected to physical meetups to keep the cycle going
Submited by bmann 21, November 2008

WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: Deconstructing Foo-- Designing Better Conferences

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:51:20 GMT

"You might think that only software-geek events like Foo could make these pre-conference online tools, but nowadays anyone can set up a social network and wiki with Drupal. Hosting a conference could be as simple as inviting a bunch of people, giving them
Submited by bmann 21, November 2008

WorldChanging: Another World Is Here

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:43:18 GMT

Interesting, very professional team blog on the intersection of ecology and technology. Discovered via a link search for JH Kunstler's site; WorldChanging is optimistic where Kunstler is pessimistic, but they are on the same "side".
Submited by nbr 21, November 2008

Energy, environment and the GWOT - Tom Friedman

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:42:48 GMT

Interesting.
Submited by nbr 21, November 2008

Help Us Change the World

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:09:25 GMT

Submited by davidhogg 21, November 2008

WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: The $600 Solution

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:18:34 GMT

Submited by J__1 22, November 2008