Worldchanging Institute

We are honored to co-host this international amputee football match in London today. This is part of a broader program to develop and build adaptive sports facilities for communities in conflict.

Rebuilding after disaster. Turkish: arkitera.com/haber/meslegim… English: dezeen.com/2023/02/08/tur…

Earthquakes don't kill people, bad buildings do: How architects can respond to the tragedy in Turkey and Northern Syria. dezeen.com/2023/02/08/tur…

The new Worldchanging book is out in stores! http://bit.ly/hW5GJj Please help us spread the news!

Worldchanging 2.0 is greatly updated; foreword by Van Jones, intro by Bill McKibben http://amzn.to/ek3jHo now available to pre-order

The new Worldchanging book http://amzn.to/ek3jHo will be available in UK bookstores March 1st, same as US.

RT @AlexSteffen Are we seeing a "Berlin Wall" moment with democracy in the Middle East?

"...and to glimpse a vision of what a bright green future might look like." -Bill McKibben, from the intro

"To read Worldchanging is to understand the range of solutions from which we can draw to build a workable future..."

New sections on everything from passive houses to post-ownership, greening megacities to remaking the ruins of the unsustainable.

Worldchanging's new foreword is by Van Jones. Bill McKibben wrote the intro. http://amzn.to/ek3jHo

Worldchanging 2.0 is greatly updated, partly a new edition, in some ways a whole new book. http://amzn.to/ek3jHo

RT @AlexSteffen Cities safer for kids than suburbs; esp for mid class families. Suburbs=more car crashes, murders. http://natpo.st/enLRkh

Reminded: tweets here stopping at the end of the month. Follow @AlexSteffen for more worldchanging thinking. Thanks!

As one small data point: world in 2050 expected to have 700-1000 cities with populations larger than 1 million: Europe today has 35 or so.

Those of us who live in already urbanized, demographically-stable countries have a really hard time grasping what's going on in the world...

I've used images of Shanghai 1990/2010) in talks http://j.mp/fy5vIw - illustrates reality of 200,000+ new urbanites/day...

FInally, for today, Worldchanging's new book is still coming out in March despite Worldchanging itself shutting down: http://bit.ly/bLsH50

Puts sensible observers in difficult spot: ignore facts of scope, scale+ speed, or say things that brand you an unreliable Beltway outsider.

Scientific caution, right-wing success+ advocates wanting to look moderate= even mainstream enviro NGO positions falling away from reality.