Worldchanging : a user's guide for the 21st century / edited by Alex Steffen ; foreword by Al Gore ; design by Sagmeister Inc.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 538-546) and index.

STUFF: Questioning consumption -- Consuming responsibly -- Understanding trade -- Creating healthy homes -- Doing the right thing can be delicious -- Buying better food everywhere -- Eating better meat and fish -- Preserving barnyard biodiversity -- Cars and fuel -- Bright green consumerism -- Designing a sustainable world -- Picking green materials -- Craft it yourself -- Engineer it yourself -- Art meets technology -- Biomimicry -- Nanotechnology -- Neobiological industry -- Knowing what's green -- Producer responsibility -- Collaborative design -- Open source -- Design for development -- Bright green computers -- SHELTERS: Green remodeling -- Building a green home -- Living well in a compact space -- Developing green housing -- Furniture and home decor -- Lighting -- Energy -- Using energy efficiently -- Green power -- Going off the grid -- Smart grids -- Water -- Conserving water -- Thinking differently about water -- Landscaping -- EcoHouse Brazil -- Refugees -- Reinventing the refugee camp -- Transforming disaster relief -- Open-source humanitarian design -- Land mines -- Rethinking refugee reconstruction -- CITIES: The bright green city -- Vancouver -- Portland -- Retrofitting the suburbs -- Big green buildings and skyscrapers -- Healing polluted land -- Greening infrastructure -- Place-making -- Urban transportation -- Product-service systems -- Chinese cities of the future -- Lagos -- Megacity innovations -- The hidden vitality of slums -- Leapfrogging -- ICT4D -- Brazil's Telecentros -- Leapfrogging infrastructure -- COMMUNITY: Holistic problem solving -- Education and literacy -- Educating girls and empowering women -- Public health -- South-south science -- Copyfight -- Urban community development -- Community capital -- Microfinance -- Social entrepreneurship -- Giving well -- The barefoot college -- Travel and tourism -- Global culture -- BUSINESS: Your money -- Creating business value from sustainability -- Green marketing -- Brands -- Thriving in a bright green economy -- Seeing the big picture -- Start-up 101 -- POLITICS: Movement building -- Networking politics -- Amplifying your voice -- Connecting with others -- Tools for talking -- Demanding transparency -- Demanding human rights -- Watching the watchers -- Protest -- Direct action -- Nonviolent revolution -- Ending violence -- PLANET: Placing yourself -- Citizen science -- Restoration ecology -- Ecosystem services -- Biodiversity: how much nature is enough? Sustainable forestry -- Creating rural sustainability in the global south -- Future of the small town -- Local greenhouse forecast -- Climate foresight -- A personal action plan -- Mapping -- Charting the deep oceans -- Polar regions -- The solar system: greens in space -- Imagining the future.

Why does buying locally produced food make sense? What steps can we take to influence our workplace toward sustainability? How do we volunteer and advocate more effectively? How can we travel, live, work and learn in world changing ways? This work addresses these and other questions.