Bookmarks tagged with World Changing
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism by Fred Turner, an excerpt
From Counterculture to Cyberculture Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
fritz haeg studio
practicing a fusion of the design arts responsive to humans & environments
Gapminder - Home
This website, powered by Trendalyzer, enables you to explore the changing world from your own computer. Moving graphics show how the development of all countries by the indicators you choose.
James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler says he wrote The Geography of Nowhere, "Because I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside that makes up the everyday environment where most Americans live and work."
THE END OF SUBURBIA
Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family life and upward mobility. As the population of suburban sprawl has exploded in the past 50 years, so too has the suburban way of life become embedded in the American consciousness.
Climate Debate Daily
Climate Debate Daily is intended to deepen our understanding of disputes over climate change and the human contribution to it. The site links to scientific articles, news stories, economic studies, polemics, historical articles, PR releases, editorials, feature commentaries, and blog entries. The main column on the left includes arguments and evidence generally in support of the IPCC position on the reality of signficant anthropogenic global warming. The right-hand column includes material skeptical of the IPCC position and the notion that anthropogenic global warming represents a genuine threat to humanity.
The Shock Doctrine | Naomi Klein
On this website, you can receive the latest news about Naomi Klein's latest book, The Shock Doctrine, read reviews, and see where you can purchase a copy. ShockDoctrine.com is designed to serve as a living companion to the book for readers who want to delve deeper into the book's material and themes, and who want to see the evidence for themselves.
Avaaz.org - The World in Action
Avaaz.org is a community of global citizens who take action on the major issues facing the world today. The aim of Avaaz.org is to ensure that the views and values of the world’s people shape global decisions. Avaaz.org members act for a more just and peaceful world and a globalisation with a human face.
The World Without Us - Alan Weisman
In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of humanity's impact on the planet: he asks us to envision our Earth, without us.
A Crude Awakening
A Crude Awakening, produced and directed by award-winning European journalists and filmmakers Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack, tells the story of how our civilization’s addiction to oil puts it on a collision course with geology. Compelling, intelligent, and highly entertaining, the film visits with the world’s top experts and comes to a startling, but logical conclusion – our industrial society, built on cheap and readily available oil, must be completely re-imagined and overhauled.
Welcome To The Free Soil Party
Free Soil is a different political party, not in any typical category. This is a party for equal opportunity and fair competition, for defending the endangered, linking ecology, free enterprise, civil liberties, independent thought, such things capitalism as practiced finds a nuisance. The economy is warped, its regulations riddled with loopholes. Free Soil proposes another definition of free enterprise, valuing resources taken for granted in proportion to their real value. Usual ways of doing business and politics cannot be sound or credible, except to those true believers the party faithful, as these articles demonstrate.
The Oil Drum | Discussions about Energy and Our Future
Peak Oil Associates International provides a regularly updated policy analysis of Peak Oil impacts, as well as presentations and consulting for individuals, organizations, government, and business regarding Peak Oil planning, risk management, and relocations. We provide practical, honest, and unbiased research and consulting services. The website will be continually expanded to provide information on Peak Oil planning.
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TED: Ideas worth spreading
Inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers
Earthship Biotecture » Putting Housing Back into the Hands of the People
Earthship n. 1. passive solar home made of natural and recycled materials 2. thermal mass construction for temperature stabilization. 3. renewable energy & integrated water systems make the Earthship an off-grid home with little to no utility bills. Biotecture n. 1. the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their sustainability. 2. A combination of biology and architecture.
freeDimensional :: Linking Artistic Communities to International Social Justice
freeDimensional organizes community arts space and local resources for the support and protection of individuals who create dialogue on global issues and inequalities through their art and media. freeDimensional envisions a world in which diverse ideas and rigorous debate are nurtured by inclusive community spaces that are unique for their creative outlook, a process that results in direct action on critical, contemporary issues.
Architecture for Humanity - Design Like You Give A Damn
WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future
WorldChanging.com works from a simple premise: that the tools, models and ideas for building a better future lie all around us. That plenty of people are working on tools for change, but the fields in which they work remain unconnected. That the motive, means and opportunity for profound positive change are already present. That another world is not just possible, it's here. We only need to put the pieces together.
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