World Changing - A Users Guide for the 21st Century

By Author Alex Steffen, Forward by Al Gore, Introduction by Bruce Sterling, design by Stefan Sagmiester., 2008

Worldchanging: A Users Guide for the 21st Century is a groundbreaking compendium of the most innovative solutions, ideas and inventions emerging today for building a sustainable, livable, prosperous future.

Over 600 pages, divided into 7 sections which include a vast range of topics:
Stuff: green design, biomimicry, sustainable food, clothing, trade and technology.
Shelter: green building and landscaping, clean energy, water, disaster relief and humanitarian design.
Cities: smart growth, sustainable communities, transportation, greening infrastructure, product-service systems, leapfrogging and megacity challenges.
Community: education, women's rights, public health, holistic approaches to community development, South-South science, social entrepreneurship and micro-lending, and philanthropy.
Business: socially responsible investment, worldchanging start-ups, ecological economics, corporate social responsibility and green business.
Politics: networked politics, new media, transparency, human rights, non-violent revolution and peacemaking.
Planet: everything from placing oneself in a bioregion to climate foresight to environmental history to green space exploration.

From consumer consciousness to a new vision for industry; non-toxic homes to refugee shelters; microfinance to effective philanthropy; socially responsible investing to starting a green business; citizen media to human rights; ecological economics to climate change, this is the most comprehensive, cutting-edge overview to date of what's possible in the near future - if we decide to make it so.

Superb book design by Stefan Sagmiester.

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