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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,...

Sarah Kuck: As gas prices climb and electricity prices follow, people looking for alternatives are turning to the wind. The popularity of wind energy is growing,...

Alex Steffen: A couple years ago, I wrote a piece Why We Need An X Prize for Eco-Friendly Air Travel, encouraging a competitive approach towards innovating a...

WorldChanging Team: By Zufan* Editor's Note: We encourage "Reader Reports" -- submissions from members of Worldchanging's global audience who volunteer to write up their notes from...

Ben Block: by Ben Block and Christopher Flavin On Thursday, politician-turned-activist Al Gore called for the United States to rely 100 percent on zero-carbon sources of electricity...

WorldChanging Team: By Mary Catherine O’Connor What will bike-friendly cities look like ten years from now? As citizens around the world raise the demand for human-powered...

WorldChanging Team: 40 cities, 2,058 neighboords, and one Walk Score to rule them all. By Eric De Place It's here! The biggest 40 cities in America ranked...

Sarah Kuck: Monday, Primer Dalton McGuinty announced that Ontario will set aside 55 million acres of Northern Boreal Forest for permanent protection from development. The area,...

WorldChanging Team: Check your smartphone to find a parking meter. By Adam Stein When I last wrote about San Francisco’s innovative plan to reduce congestion through market-based...

WorldChanging Team: Bike-sharing offers modest emissions reductions, and no reason to complain. By Adam Stein On the first anniversary of Vélib, the Times dishes up some stats...

WorldChanging Team: by Eric de Place Taking a three-day weekend for the planet. From the Beehive State, a gratifying way to reduce energy use (and carbon emissions):...

Ethan Zuckerman: Creative Commons is a clever use of the copyright system intended to make it easier for people who want to, to share their work...

Clark Williams-Derry: Why are corn and oil prices rising in tandem? I've become a bit obsessive about oil prices -- I check them online several times each...

Sarah Kuck: For the last 20 years, home builders, designers and dwellers have watched the construction of manufactured, or prefabricated, homes change from quick, basic and...

Alex Steffen: or, Millennial Mistakes: Why the Apocalypse is a Bad Model for Understanding The Future In thinking seriously about the negative trends in our future, we're...

WorldChanging Team: Yes, but the water has to come from unicorn tears. By Adam Stein Unsurprisingly, inevitably, rising gas prices have brought increased interest in the water-powered...

Alex Steffen: The argument could be made that COP 15 -- the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen at the end of next year -- may...