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Amanda Reed: Five years ago today Jamais Cascio looked back at Alex Steffen's essay on "The Culture of Extinction" in which Alex made a powerful and moving...

WorldChanging Team: Looking back one, two and five years ago today on Worldchanging: 2009 See it Before it Disappears: Reconciling and Regulating Disaster Tourism Carissa Bluestone examines...

Yale Environment 360: Consumers now have little information about the true ecological impacts of what they buy. But that may be about to change, as new technologies that...

WorldChanging Team: by David Bois Recent scientific advancements have led to one innovation that can extract potable water from atmospheric moisture and another that produces synthetic fuel...

WorldChanging Team: In the chaos of Mumbai’s best-known slum, thousands of recyclers process the megacity’s garbage and provide an invaluable environmental service, but the health and social...

WorldChanging Team: Looking back one, two and five years ago today on Worldchanging: 2009 The Bioluminescent Metropolis Geoff Manaugh explores the idea of cultivating bioluminescent organisms for...

Yale Environment 360: This energy chart, produced by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory shows, at left, the different sources of energy and the amounts produced in the...

Amanda Reed: Kristina Hill, PhD, Affiliate ASLA, is Chair of the Landscape Architecture department at the University of Virginia. Recently, the American Society of Landscape Architects...

Amanda Reed: Logo (via MobileActive) MobileActive has invented a new model for non-profits to share failure-stories as a way to promote learning and future success: the...

WorldChanging Team: Looking back one, two and five years ago today on Worldchanging: 2009 Transparency, Accountability and the "dot eco" Debate Peter ter Weeme reports on the...

Geoff Manaugh: . Keiichi Matsuda, a recent graduate—with distinction—from the Bartlett School of Architecture, whose film Domestic Robocop was featured on BLDGBLOG several months ago, has a...

Alex Aylett: It's been just over two weeks since London opened it's version of the Montreal designed Bixi-bike sharing system. With 6000 “boris-bikes” on the street (nicknamed...

WorldChanging Team: Looking back one, two and five years ago today on Worldchanging: 2009 Wanderlusting No. 3: Lego Power Chris Turner writes a postcard from Legoland and...

Amanda Reed: My recent post on Games for Change seemed to be pretty popular, so I thought many of you would be interested to learn of...

Regine Debatty: Regine shares notes from Day 5 of her adventures at Postopolis!DF in Mexico City and highlights the work of MANGUM and Torolab. Ehécatl Cabrera Franco...

WorldChanging Team: Looking back one, two and five years ago today (give or take) on Worldchanging: 2009 Eyes On The Street: Try A Bixi Bike On For...

Amanda Reed: Good news: Russian President Dmitri Medvedev has intervened in the case of the Pavlovsk Experimental Station. John Vidal at The Guardian reports: The Russian...

Amanda Reed: This week conservation ecologist Guillaume Chapron and journalist George Monbiot launched Biodiversity 100, an international campaign to get those responsible in G20 countries (countries...

Regine Debatty: Urban Interventions - Personal Projects in Public Spaces, edited by Robert Klanten and Matthias Huebner (available on Amazon UK and USA.) Publisher Gestalten says: This...

Ethan Zuckerman: Earlier this week, I met with Evan Paul, a smart urban planner just out of a master’s program at MIT. He’s working with colleagues on...