Aug 22, 08

Team Happenings

Worldchanging Nominated for the Webby's Best Magazine 2007 Award

We are delighted to be nominated for a Webby Award ("the Oscars of the Internet") for Best Magazine of 2007.

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Alex Steffen on the Leonard Lopate Show

Sarah Kuck, 9 Jul 08

On Tuesday, Leonard Lopate of WNYC interviewed Worldchanging Executive Editor Alex Steffen about the "stickiness" of environmental trends. Leonard wanted to know why environmental trends -- like bringing your own canvas bag to the store -- catch on in some...


Worldchanging Seeks Office Manager (full-time)

Sarah Kuck, 7 Jul 08

If you enjoy bringing order to the artists; if your part in every adventure is designing the itinerary; if you're the one who remembered to pack sunscreen, baby wipes and TP for Burning Man, then you may be just the...


Edward Burtynsky honored with Ideas for Life Award

WorldChanging Team, 21 May 08

The Canadian Environmental Awards 2008 has chosen to recognize the photographic prowess of Worldchanging Board Member Ed Burtynsky with their Ideas for Life Award. This award is given for outstanding efforts that increase environmental awareness or the conservation, restoration or...


Jer's Environmental Facts Label Gains Buzz

Sarah Kuck, 2 May 08

CNET.com and Package Design Magazine have recently covered Worldchanging contributing editor Jer Faludi’s ideas for Environmental Fact Labels, saying that they may indeed be the future of green labeling From designer clothing to processed food, we use labels to tell...


Green Computing Interview

Alex Steffen, 11 Mar 08

There's a long interview with Jer about green computing over on IT Conversations: As more companies examine the issue of environmentally friendly products, it is not surprising that the concept of green computing would grow in importance. IT professionals are...


A Brighter Shade of Green

Alex Steffen, 9 Mar 08

The WIE magazine piece we mentioned before, A Brighter Shade of Green: Rebooting Environmentalism for the 21st Century, is now online. It's worth a read: "Another world is possible,” goes the popular slogan of the World Social Forum, a yearly...


Sweet write-up on VF Daily

Alex Steffen, 5 Feb 08

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Richard Meier tells Vanity Fair that we're his top site: Sustainable strategy is one of the focuses of my practice today. World Changing has a wealth of information on sustainability resources. It’s comprehensive and solution-based. (Thanks, Sam!)


CBC's Spark Interviews Alex

WorldChanging Team, 23 Jan 08

The latest episode of the CBC show Spark features a long interview with Alex on product-service systems, producer responsibility, backstory insight and why owning things may be over-rated. Here's the run down for the show: On this episode of Spark...


CompostModern

Alex Steffen, 17 Jan 08

I'll be keynoting the CompostModern conference this weekend. It's got a bright green all-star line-up, so if you're in the Bay Area, come on by!


Worldchanging on the CBC

Alex Steffen, 3 Dec 07

Nice article on the CBC website the other day, A little good news: Green America: Not surprisingly, Americans being Americans, the whole crisis has taken on an air of entrepreneurial optimism. At a speech in Seattle in early November, former...