Regine Debatty: A quick project seen last month at the RCA Summer show. This one is by Design Products (platform 11) graduate and engineer Benjamin Males: The...

Ben Block: Growing up in West Texas, Larry Martin became well accustomed to the challenges of living off the land. Raised on a cotton farm outside...

Alex Steffen: Stewart Brand writes up Ed's talk thusly: Photographer Edward Burtynsky made a formal proposal for a permanent art gallery in the chamber that encloses the...

Ethan Zuckerman: There’s nothing like a meeting on the future of journalism to get you concerned about the future of journalism. While there are some brilliant...

Alex Steffen: The venerable High Country News -- one of the leaders in North American rural lands reporting for a couple decades now -- has a new...

Clark Williams-Derry: The Texas highway department says no. I thought this was interesting.  The Texas highway department – Texas, no less! -- says that roads simply...

Ethan Zuckerman: The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation supports a huge range of journalistic programs, ranging from experimental efforts in community journalism to massive...

WorldChanging Team: By Carey King Moving toward a sustainable, or renewable energy-based economy, stresses the views of how people value their time and exertion. Our system...

Clark Williams-Derry: Should we add one more gas to the Kyoto list? Time to head back into my pillow fort: Nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) can be called the...

Ethan Zuckerman: The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation supports a huge range of journalistic programs, ranging from experimental efforts in community journalism to massive players...

Julia Steinberger: As we've mentioned, we are working on the upcoming launch of our new locally focused blog, Worldchanging Seattle. Though we know you read Worldchanging...

Alex Steffen: Check out this cool Lego wind turbine, for your budding bright green boy or girl! via...

Alex Steffen: Readers in San Francisco have the opportunity tomorrow to hear Worldchanging Chairman Ed Burtynsky deliver a Long Now Seminar. Ed will be talking about...

WorldChanging Team: By Janette Crawford In late June, less than two months after we lamented its closing, clothing manufacturer Nau announced its re-birth. It had been purchased...

Alex Steffen: Two new reports offer useful tools for thinking about the future, both focused on the United States and both needed. The first report, Analyses of...

Alex Steffen: Normally, I try to think in planetary terms and avoid parochial nationalism, so it's somewhat ironic that today a global perspective actually leads me to...

Alex Steffen: A quick note to anybody who's online today or checking their RSS feeds: if you've been meaning to take our survey, but haven't had a...

Alex Steffen: One of the house projects we've been working on at home is replacing as much of our lawn with garden beds as makes sense. We...

WorldChanging Team: By Kathryn Cooper Whether at the local, national or global level, the plan for a switch to renewable energy involves two crucial pieces: policy and...

Billy Matheson: Pulse of the Nation is a new web based initiative to get New Zealand voters engaged in the build up to this year’s general election,...