Hasta La Ideas

Seven years in the making and five years after its initial publication, our friends at Worldchanging.com have published a revised and updated version of their groundbreaking text. Worldchanging, Revised and Updated: A User’s Guide to the 21st Century doesn’t disappoint with 50% new content and over 160 new entries. This overhauled edition incorporates the most recent studies and projects being implemented worldwide in the field of global sustainability.

Worldchanging 2.0 is an urban book, focusing on cities and the systems we need to change to make them carbon-neutral, zero-waste, walkable and equitable engines of prosperity. It’s an ambitious book, full of the kinds of bold thinking we need to engage with to build a truly bright green future: climate foresight and planetary thinking; sustainable design innovations and passivhaus buildings; walksheds, ubiquitous technology and sharing systems; biomimicry and green chemistry; adaptive re-use and rugged green infrastructure; telling the backstories of the things we buy, making transparent the functioning of our governments and rebuilding the ruins of the unsustainable. On a planet hurtling towards not only a population of 9 billion people, almost all living in or around cities, facing a massive ecological crisis and an unfaltering technological revolution, ideas like the ones in Worldchanging are no longer just provocative, they’re essential. Worldchanging is a guide to building (and living in) bright green cities. Now, not in some distant, perfect future.

Pickup the Worldchanging 2.0 online or read more about the new edition here!

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