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“Changing the world is a team sport, and there’s a spot on that team for every person on the planet, though finding our spot can be damn hard. Learning what we can do is not easy in itself, but discovering what each of us feels called to do, in a way that only we can do it, is one of the hardest tasks life has to offer.”

World Changing: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century edited by Alex Steffen, was produced by, our ‘teammates’, the crew at WorldChanging.org to be a “groundbreaking compendium of the most innovative solutions, ideas and inventions emerging today for building a sustainable, livable, prosperous future.”

I pre-ordered the hardcover version of this book and it arrived, to my delight, at lunchtime today! So, now that my crisp new copy has been baptized in tomato sauce, I’d like to shoot you guys in the direction of the website that has categories that correspond with those of the book to give you a taste of what I am gleaning from its pages.

This thick volume is full of thought provoking ideas about everything from a Guide to Making Your Own Biodiesel to Land Mine-detecting Flowers to Socially Responsible Investment to Sustainable Forestry to the Hidden Vitality of Slums and onto some of our favorite categories like Place-Making, Developing Green Housing, Living Well In Compact Space, Living Walls and Cool Roofs… I’ve got some reading to do…

*Worldchanging was printed on New Leaf recycled paper and wind power credits were purchased to offset the amount of electricity used to produce the book.

Vanessa