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WorldChanging Team: By Xarissa Holdaway Duke University's wetlands restoration not only provides habitat, but also purifies water for local communities. I recently attended the annual conference hosted...

Geoff Manaugh: I'm in London, watching snowflakes fall amidst early morning rain flurries, reading David Grann's new book The Lost City of Z, and getting ready for...

Ben Block: We often discuss the sustainability implications of peak population. Read more about this topic here and here . Reproductive health advocates are praising the nomination...

Geoff Manaugh: Waiting Room [Image: The Waiting Room, Rome, by Jeffrey Inaba/Inaba Projects].Jeffrey Inaba of Inaba Projects has a new pavilion on display now in Rome, sponsored...

Chris Turner: Recently, I gave a reading at an eco-themed fundraiser event for a magazine I contribute to frequently. Along with the other presenters, I received a...

WorldChanging Team: We just got a peek at the cover design for the Korean edition of Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century. The edition will...

Clark Williams-Derry: Can "green tech" have a dark cloud? This New York Time Magazine article on green venture capital makes me simultaneously hopeful and nervous. Kleiner Perkins...

WorldChanging Team: UN-led climate-change talks in Poland this week are a key step in one of the most important – and complex – negotiations the world...

WorldChanging Team: By Kathryn Cooper The price we pay at the grocery store is not the true cost of our food. Our food systems allow many major...

Jon Lebkowsky: We talk a lot about reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide, but how do we know what strategies are working? Some dedicated souls with the right cutting-edge...

Sarah Kuck: It's midnight at the White House, and as usual, the outgoing administration is doing its best to leave its final mark. The non-profit newsroom...

WorldChanging Team: Editor's note: This post is part of a series. We'll be releasing one of Worldchanging ally Andy Lubershane's original comics each week until the end...

Alex Steffen: Andy says, as we say here, it's all one big problem with millions of interlocking solutions needed to solve it: Q. Obviously climate change is...

Alex Steffen: This poem hit me deep the first time I read it, back when we were just starting Worldchanging. Simran Sethi reminded me of it today,...

Alex Steffen: The babies born between 1965 and 1970 were historic. They were part of the highest global population growth rate ever achieved, 2.1 percent a year....

Alex Steffen: It's a holiday weekend, so this is a lazy post: I was recently asked what kinds of technological developments I found interesting. Here's the list...

Julia Levitt: The Living Planet Report 2008, a study published by the WWF, offers the organization's most in-depth study of global ecosystem decline to date. The...

WorldChanging Team: by Alan Durning $100 billion for green jobs. Billion! The Associated Press reports plans for a massive new green-collar federal stimulus package: Obama has also...

Ethan Zuckerman: My friend and colleague Evgeny Morozov is spending a year as an Open Society Institute fellow, working through some of his ideas about cybernationalism and...

WorldChanging Team: The topic of wildlands is an emotional issue for many residents across the United States. Immortalized in iconic photographs, timeless paintings and oral histories, these...