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WorldChanging: Intent Shapes Environment, Environment Shapes Life
What happens if your intent is to create a wonderful place to live? Intent shapes the environment. Environment shapes life.
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Member Driven Advocacy Groups - WorldChanging
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.
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WorldChanging: Al Gore, Clean Energy and A Better Nation
Existence is the ultimate proof of the possible.
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WorldChanging: Californians are Climate Trendsetters
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.
2008, altruistic, article, bright, californian, innovative, modern, optimistic, prosperous, stable, More... saved by: meryn  more details ...
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WorldChanging: The Problem with Big Green
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.
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WorldChanging: Imagine What Comes After Green
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 ...
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WorldChanging: U.S. Environmentalists Finally Have a Leader
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 ...
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WorldChanging: Bike, Meet the City. City, This is the Bike.
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.
2008, article, bikable, bike-friendly, car-centric, convenient, cultural, dangerous, facilitative, hostile, More... saved by: meryn  more details ...
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WorldChanging: Here Comes Everybody
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.
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WorldChanging: Resilient Community
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.
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WorldChanging: U.K. Committee Supports Personal Carbon Trading
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 offs...
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WorldChanging: European Union Poised to Increase Recycling
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.
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http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008095.html
WorldChanging: Tokyo's Climate Change Leadership
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG) is tackling global warming with new initiatives. These innovative and comprehensive initiatives seem to say, "Municipalities lead Japan!"
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WorldChanging: Missing the Market Meltdown
Nuclear expansion buys two to 10 times less climate protection per dollar, far slower than its winning competitors.
2008, article, coal, competitive, decentalized, economical, effective, energy, lovins, nuclear, More... saved by: meryn  more details ...
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WorldChanging: Cap and Caulk: How Smart Climate Policy Can Cut Our Energy Costs
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...
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WorldChanging: "B" is for Beneficial: The B Corporation
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 ju...
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WorldChanging: Interview with Mark Anielski
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.
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WorldChanging: More Choice for Women Means More Sustainability
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 thei...
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WorldChanging: No More Coal?
Estimates of the global subsidy to the coal industry range from tens to hundreds of billions of dollars per year.
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WorldChanging: Joshua Farley, Ecological Economist
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.
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WorldChanging: Who Will Tell the People? And How?
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.
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WorldChanging: Measuring Genuine Progress
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.
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WorldChanging: International Agricultural Assessment: We Need a Paradigm Shift
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 d...
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WorldChanging: Old King Coal: Why the World Needs a Coal Power Moratorium
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.
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Open Source is Worldchanging
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.
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WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: A Global View of Peopled Nature
Today, domestication does not stop with species but rather extends to entire landscapes, biomes, and even entire continents.
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WorldChanging: Geothermal Heat Pumps
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.
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WorldChanging: Book review: “The Bottom Billion” by Paul Collier
While Collier’s work is significantly more nuanced than most popular books on development economics, he’s not exactly shy or soft-spoken.
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WorldChanging: The Politics of Optimism
[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 responsib...
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WorldChanging: The Future of Philanthropy: Innovation, Networks, Thought Leaders and the Fringe
Good philanthropy, it seems to me, funds innovation that would otherwise never emerge, and supports action where none would otherwise be taken.
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WorldChanging: Al Gore, the Nobel Prize and the End of the Beginning
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.
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WorldChanging: Can We Solve It Like This? Why the We Campaign Needs Change.
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.
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WorldChanging: Neighborliness, Innovation and Sustainability
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 measu...
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WorldChanging: Meat and the Biofuels Debate
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 ...
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WorldChanging: Is Capitalism Growing More Socially Conscious?
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 bene...
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WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: CanadaChanging: Community, by Karl Schroeder
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...
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WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: Deconstructing Foo-- Designing Better Conferences
"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 conf...
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WorldChanging: Another World Is Here
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 ...
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Energy, environment and the GWOT - Tom Friedman
Interesting.
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Help Us Change the World
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