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Buy Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century by Alex Steffen by Al Gore, Bruce Sterling available and for sale on Brightsurf
| View Larger Image | Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century
by Alex Steffen
by Al Gore, Bruce Sterling
| | List Price: | $37.50 | | Price: | $20.54 | | You Save: | $16.96 (45%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 37375 | | Studio: | "Harry N. Abrams, Inc." | | | Binding: | Hardcover | | Number Of Pages: | 608 | | Publication Date: | November 01, 2006 | | Publisher: | "Harry N. Abrams, Inc." |
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Product Description
Worldchanging is poised to be the Whole Earth Catalog for this millennium. Written by leading new thinkers who believe that the means for building a better future lie all around us, Worldchanging is packed with the information, resources, reviews, and ideas that give readers the tools they need to make a difference. Brought together by Alex Steffen, co-founder of the popular and award-winning web site Worldchanging.com, this team of top-notch writers includes Cameron Sinclair, founder of Architecture for Humanity, Geekcorps founder Ethan Zuckerman, sustainable food expert Anna Lappé, and many others. Renowned designer Stefan Sagmeister brings his extraordinary talents to Worldchanging, resulting in a book that will challenge readers to personally redefine the conversation about the future.
Each chapter offers readers new answers to key questions, such as:
Why does buying locally produced food make sense?
What steps can I take to influence my workplace toward sustainability?
How do I volunteer, advocate, and give more effectively?
From eco-building to responsible shopping, political action to humanitarian relief, Worldchanging
puts the power to solve problems into the reader’s hands. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 47 reviews)
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Environmentalism for those who confuse computer desktop themes with nature 
A nonsensical belief that we can solve the environmental crisis by avoiding self change. Never in our history have their been a more deluded and narcissistic generation clambering to take the helm. We're in serious trouble.
July 03, 2008 | |
A Companion to the Website 
A practical comprehensive compendium of the types of practices we will need to nourish if we are to live in a Bright Green sustainable and just future. More a catalog than an essay, it is divided into sections such as Stuff, Shelter, Cities, Community, Business, Politics and Planet, giving examples of sustainable work being done in each area as well as references to relevant books and web sites. There is a strong emphasis on the potential for well-designed technologies to improve the lot of all human beings. The book is basically a collection of the types of things you will find at the [...] website.
February 02, 2008 | |
Only we can change how things are
This is a great book that makes us all more aware of the situation we find ourselves in presently aboard spaceship earth. We simply can not conduct business the way that we have in the past. The earth is not a business in liquidation. The green trends that are occuring now and that are gaining momentum are fascinating.
This is a global book with a global focus, we are all in this together.
How much time is needed? Who can know for sure but the sooner we all start, the better.
December 02, 2007 | |
If only Americans would read this instead of nonsense... 
Americans - take the effort to read this book, and then begin walking the road back to sanity and a life that includes responsibilities greater than satisfying your pathogenic needs to consume, consume, consume. The amount of nonsense that you buy is not an isolated behavior: it affects the entire planet. Unfortunately, I have little hope that Americans (of whom I am one) will read this book in any sufficient numbers. As long as they can afford to live beyond their means, drive their Chevy Suburbans, and self-righteously ignore the rest of the world, they will continue along this downward spiral of a depraved, consumer-driven society.
November 26, 2007 | |
A Bright Gren Future
This is a great resource for forward thinking environmentalists and designers interested in creating a bright and effective future beyond the confines of worn out 'back to the yesteryears' paradigms.
I found the margins a bit tight to the spleen on the inside pages, so you'll need a good reading light (or a flashlight under the covers) - but that is minor compared to the breadth of solutions available in the book.
November 17, 2007 | |
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