Worldchanging

WorldChanging is an extremely popular bright green environmentalist blog which covers ecological, humanitarian and design issues through "solutions-based journalism" covering "tools, models and ideas" for building a better future and eschewing traditional news and criticism. It is divided in to seven sections: stuff, shelter, cities, community, business, politics, and planet.

Launched in October, 2003 by Alex Steffen and Jamais Cascio, it now features a global team of writers including Geoff Manaugh. Jon Lebkowsky, Dawn Danby, Cameron Sinclair, Ethan Zuckerman, Chad Monfreda, Regine Debatty, Jeremy Faludi, Nicole-Anne Boyer, David Zaks, Micki Krimmel, Emily Gertz, Joel Makower, Dina Mehta, Seth Zuckerman, Hana Loftus, Craig Neilson and Alan Atkisson. Many of these writers were part of the Viridian Design Movement. In January 2005, it won the Utne Independent Press Award and was later nominated for a Webby Awards for best weblog and for best magazine, and a Bloggie award for Best Group Weblog. Viridian theorist (and Wired columnist) Bruce Sterling has called Worldchanging "the most important website on the planet." It is, according to several sites, one of the largest blogs in the world. It was nominated for a Webby for Best Magazine in 2007. It includes a network of local blogs in several U.S. cities and Canada.

Worldchanging is a non-profit organization headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It is run by Alex Steffen, the executive editor, and contributing editors Jeremy Faludi and Sarah Rich.

The group published Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century, which covers much of the same ground and has a foreword written by Al Gore. Earth Day founder Denis Hayes has said "Worldchanging might well be the most complete, compelling articulation of the possible look and feel and actual operation of a sustainable society ever written."

"Worldchanging" is now also more widely used as an adjective to describe efforts or plans which combine innovation, collaboration and sustainability, or even as a descriptor of cutting-edge alternative products, groups or people.

External links

• WorldChanging.com
• video of Alex Steffen's talk at the TED conference
• Dicum, Gregory (2006). Green Blogs: The Green revolution moves online. San Francisco Chronicle
• Steffen, Alex Nikolai (2006). The Next Green Revolution: How technology is leading environmentalism out of the anti-business, anti-consumer wilderness. Wired Magazine
• profile on Worldchanging in the New York Times Magazine