Worldchanging : a user's guide for the 21st century /
Steffen, Alex.
Bluestone, Carissa.
New York : Abrams,
2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
STUFF: Questioning consumption -- Knowing the backstory -- Local vs. global -- Doing the right thing can be delicious -- Buying better food -- Travel and tourism -- Giving well -- Retail 2.0 -- Post-ownership -- Designing a sustainable world -- Design for development -- Engineer it yourself -- Art meets technology -- Collaborative design -- Designing durability -- Biomimicry -- Nanotech -- Neobiological industry -- Picking green materials -- Producer responsibility -- SHELTER: Green building -- Lighting -- Energy -- Using energy efficiently -- Smart grids -- Green power -- Water -- Landscaping -- Green retrofits -- Greening infrastructure -- Small green spaces -- Big green buildings -- Developing green housing --
CITIES: The bright green city -- Density done right -- Mobility -- The ruins of the unsustainable -- Healing polluted land -- Lagos -- Chinese cities of the future -- Megacity innovations -- The hidden vitality of slums -- Leapfrogging -- COMMUNITY: Demographics and migration -- Empowering women -- Spreading innovation -- Education and literacy -- The barefoot college -- Public health -- Land mines -- Energy in the global south -- Food justice -- Microfinance -- Social entrepreneurship -- Holistic problem solving -- Refugees -- Transforming disaster relief -- Reinventing the refugee camp -- Rethinking refugee reconstruction -- Open-source humanitarian design -- BUSINESS: The future of business -- Bright green capital -- Investment -- Seeing the big picture -- Creating business value from sustainability -- Transparency in business -- Reinventing the workplace --
POLITICS: Movement building -- Amplifying your voice -- Effective campaigning -- Government 2.0 -- Demanding transparency -- Demanding human rights -- Watching the watchers -- Protest -- Direct action -- Nonviolent revolution -- Ending violence -- PLANET: Placing yourself -- Mapping -- Citizen science -- Carbon neutrality -- Climate adaptation -- Peak everything -- Restoring the biosphere -- Ecosystem services -- Soil and sustainable agriculture -- Sustainable forestry -- Oceans are the new atmosphere -- Fish for the future -- Polar regions -- The solar system: greens in space -- Imagining the future.
Environmentalism.
Sustainable development.
Green movement.