Alex Steffin, Worldchanging editor and chief is releasing their first book: Worldchanging: a users guide for the 21st century. Reason for the Worldchanging team to go on tour through North America. Read more about it.
Packed with the information, resources, reviews, and ideas that give readers the tools they need to make a difference. With an intoduction by Al Gore.
The book is divided into eight chapters:
You (which presents introductory materials and covers basic approaches for changing our thinking and designing our lives to be more worldchanging);
Stuff (which covers topics like green design, biomimicry, sustainable food, clothing, trade and technology);
Shelter (covering topics like green building and landscaping, clean energy, water, disaster relief and humanitarian design);
Cities (topics like smart growth, sustainable communities, transportation, greening infrastructure, product-service systems, leapfrogging and megacity challenges);
Communities (topics like education, women’s rights, public health, holistic approaches to community development, South-South science, social entrepreneurship and micro-lending, and philanthropy);
Business (topics like socially responsible investment, worldchanging start-ups, ecological economics, corporate social responsibility and green business);
Politics (topics like networked politics, new media, transparency, human rights, non-violent revolution and peacemaking);
Planet (the big picture — everything from placing oneself in a bioregion to climate foresight to environmental history to green space exploration).
