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Alex Steffen (* 1968) is an American writer[1], editor and futurist most noted for his bright green ideas. Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Steffen edits the online magazine Worldchanging, and is currently the site's Executive Editor and CEO. He also edited the book Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century and writes frequently for publications like Business Week[2] and Wired[3]. WorldChanging is a bright green environmentalist blog which covers ecological, humanitarian and design issues through solutions-based journalism covering tools, models and ideas for building a better future and eschewing traditional news and criticism. ...
Worldchanging Worldchanging is a non-profit online magazine and blog about sustainability and social innovation. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
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Social Innovation refers to new strategies, concepts, ideas and organizations that meet social needs of all kinds - from working conditions and education to community development and health - and that extend and strengthen civil society. ...
Worldchanging publishes a mix of essays and interviews; shorter original reviews, letters from the field (conference reports, lab visits, notes from correspondents' travels) and think-pieces; and blog posts "highlighting the best coverage of new ideas and innovations from around the Web." From time to time, the site posts radio-style podcasts as well.
Worldchanging's content is divided in to seven sections: stuff, shelter, cities, community, business, politics, and planet. This taxonomy is designed to parse solutions based on their proximity to the reader, so that one one extreme Stuff is mostly about innovations in product design, food, clothing, and other objects used directly by individual people, while on the other extreme Planet encompasses global environmental and social issues, scientific advances and new thinking about the future of humanity. Look up stuff in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
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The site has been critical acclaimed, and won or been nominated for a number of prestigious awards and prizes:
- 2005, won the Utne Independent Press Award.
- 2006, finalist for a Webby for Best Blog.
- 2007, finalist for a Webby for Best Magazine, as well as for Bloggie awards for Best Group Weblog and Best Writing for a Weblog; won the Green Prize for Sustainable Literature for its book; won Organic Design Award. Prix Ars Electronica nominee.
- 2008, named a Webby Official Honoree.
Worldchanging has won a large audience. It is, according to several sites, one of the most popular blogs in the world[4], and was rated the second largest sustainability site on the web by Nielsen Online in 2008[5] as well as being named one of the world's top 15 environmental websites by Time Magazine. The Utne Reader is a periodical founded in 1984 by Eric Utne. ...
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Presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, the Webby Awards are a set of awards presented to the worlds best websites. The awards have been given out since 1996. ...
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Books Steffen published a survey of global innovation, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century with a foreword by Al Gore, design by Stefan Sagmeister and an introduction by Bruce Sterling. It has received wide praise (see below), was a winner of the Green Prize for sustainable literature, and is now seeing translation into French (under the title Change Le Monde[6]), German and several other languages. [7] The book (in both hardcover and paperback editions) has also become a best-seller in the field[8] since its first release in November 2006, was mentioned by BusinessWeek as one of the "Best Innovation and Design Books for 2006"[9]. This article is about the former Vice President of the United States. ...
Stefan Sagmeister (born 1962 in Vorarlberg, Austria) is a graphic designer and typographer currently based in New York City. ...
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Gore, in his foreword to the book, calls it "vitally important," adding,
"Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century is a compendium of solutions, some little known but well proven, some innovative and new, some bold but as yet untried. This book not only shows what is already possible, but also helps all of us imagine what might be – in our own homes, in our communities, and for the planet as a whole. Taken together, these solutions present a picture of a future that is not dark or catastrophic, but one that is full of hope and within our grasp. To build that future, we need a generation of everyday heroes, people who – whatever their walks of life – have the courage to think in fresh ways and to act to meet this planetary crisis head-on. This book belongs in the library of every person who aspires to be part of that generation." Bill McKibben in the New York Review of Books characterized the book as "The Whole Earth Catalog retooled for the iPod generation." The Whole Earth Catalog was a sizeable catalog published twice a year from 1968 to 1972, and occasionally thereafter, until 1998. ...
"It is precisely this question – how we might radically transform our daily lives – that is addressed by the cheerful proprietors of the WorldChanging website in their new book of the same name. This is one of the most professional and interesting websites that you could possibly bookmark on your browser; almost every day they describe a new technology or technique for environmentalists.... [Their book} is a compendium of everything a younger generation of environmental activists has to offer: creativity, digital dexterity, networking ability, an Internet-era optimism about the future, and a deep concern about not only green issues but related questions of human rights, poverty, and social justice. The book's pragmatism is refreshing: 'We can do this' is the constant message, and there are enough examples to leave little doubt that sheer cleverness is not what we're lacking as we approach our uncertain future. 'We need, in the next twenty-five years or so, to do something never before done. We need to consciously redesign the entire material basis of our civilization,' Alex Steffen writes in his editor's introduction. 'If we face an unprecedented planetary crisis, we also find ourselves in a moment of innovation unlike any that has come before.... We live in an era when the number of people working to make the world better is exploding.' He's right." Earth Day founder Denis Hayes says, "WorldChanging might well be the most complete, compelling articulation of the possible look and feel and actual operation of a sustainable society ever written." Denis Hayes, taken while director of the Solar Energy Research Institute (1979-1981) Denis Hayes (1944- ) is a leading environmental activist and proponent of Solar power. ...
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Themes Steffen's work addresses themes of bright green sustainability, public foresight and social innovation. In particular, he says, he's interested in looking at ways in which the planet's most pressing problems can be met with innovative solutions in order to produce not only benefit to those alive today, but a long-term increase in options and opportunities for the human race[10][11]. The term bright green has emerged in the past few years to refer to a subcategory of environmentalism, distinguishing it from traditional forms. ...
Solutions-Based Journalism Steffen practices what he describes as solutions-based journalism [12], that is, the explicit goal of his work at Worldchanging is to highlight the possible solutions to what the editorial team sees as the planet's most pressing problems, rather than to spread news of those problems or critiques of their causes[13]. He was quoted in the Guardian [14] as saying "Cynicism is often seen as a rebellious attitude in western popular culture, but in reality, our cynicism advances the desires of the powerful: cynicism is obedience." WorldChanging is a bright green environmentalist blog which covers ecological, humanitarian and design issues through solutions-based journalism covering tools, models and ideas for building a better future and eschewing traditional news and criticism. ...
The benefit of this approach was summed up in a widely-remarked[15] essay Steffen wrote on The Politics of Optimism[16] in which he wrote, "We can freely acknowledge the tremendous struggle ahead of us, and yet choose to remain decidedly optimistic, and to work from a fundamental belief in the possibilities of the future. ... Every time we explain how a better future might be built, we redraw the boundaries of the possible."
Public Speaking Steffen has spoken at (often keynoted) conferences like TED, Poptech, Design Indaba, Amsterdam's PicNic and New Delhi's Doors of Perception as well as major industry events like the AIGA and IDSA national conferences, O'Reilly's Emerging Technologies (eTech), FOO Camp, CompostModern and South by Southwest Interactive (SxSW). He frequently speaks for academic and cultural audiences at institutions like Barcelona's CCCB, Stanford, Harvard, the University of Washington and the Art Center College of Design. He has spoken at or consulted to a number of major companies and government agencies including Nike, Carrier, Arup, Amazon.com, Yahoo!, Weiden + Kennedy, Charles Schwab, Nau, IDEO, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, the World Travel and Tourism Council, the green venture capital retreat ResourcePoint, the Government of British Columbia, the Alliance for Innovation and the Canadian Environmental Grantmakers' Association. He is represented by the Lavin Agency.[17]. TED Transducer Electronic Data Sheet Teddy Theodore Edward Ted (airline) TED (conference) Torrent episode downloader Traffic Engineering Database, used for traffic engineering in MPLS networks Category: ...
Media Coverage and Response Rotman magazine describes Steffen as "an award-winning writer... engaged in innovative, future-forward sustainability work"[18], while the Seattle Weekly calls him one "of the world's leading green futurists".[19] It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with University of Toronto Commerce. ...
Seattle Weekly is the third most popular newspaper in Seattle, Washington, United States, with a circulation of over 100,000. ...
He was chosen by The New York Times Magazine as one of six leading innovators in its "Ecotecture" issue[20], and is the subject of a CNN documentary.
Steffen's ideas have garnered widespread media coverage, including stories in the New York Times and New York Times Magazine, the Guardian, Time magazine, Der Spiegel, BusinessWeek, Fortune, Wired, US News and World Report, USA Today, the L.A. Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Times, Le Monde, the Independent, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Fast Company, SEED, ID, Dwell, ReadyMade, the Associated Press, the New York Review of Books, the International Herald Tribune, the Globe and Mail, the New Statesman, the Nation, New Scientist, Sierra magazine, Outside, Audubon, and the Sun. Steffen has also appeared on the Today Show, LinkTV and several CBC television programs. Radio includes the CBC's the Current, the BBC, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, NPR's Living on Earth, Open Source and Morning Edition programs, as well as on Earth & Sky, Marketplace and many local NPR affiliate and talk radio programs. CBC Television is a Canadian English language television network. ...
Steffen's ideas are not without their critics, especially among older American conservative thinkers. The biggest criticism is that Steffen's bright green ideas, and the ideas of his colleagues, are overly idealistic and could lead to governmental abuses of power in restraint of free enterprise. That said, some conservative media outlets have praised Worldchanging's non-ideological approach to social change, including the Wall Street Journal.
Earlier Years, Private Life Alex Steffen attended Oberlin College before earning his B.A. from Allegheny College in 1990, and, interwoven with his career as a futurist, writer and editor, pursued graduate studies at University of Washington’s Jackson School of International Studies. Oberlin College is a highly selective liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio, in the United States. ...
Allegheny College is a private liberal arts college located in northwestern Pennsylvania which prides itself as being one of the oldest colleges in the United States. ...
The University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. ...
Thompson Hall, home of the Jackson School The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies is a school within the University of Washingtons College of Arts and Sciences, in Seattle, Washington. ...
Previously, he was president of the Seattle urban livability group Allied Arts, started Steelhead magazine, and founded the now-defunct Fuse Foundation. Steffen guest-edited the final, unreleased issue of the Whole Earth Review. He also consulted to many environmental groups and political campaigns.[21] It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Rainbow trout. ...
Whole Earth Review is the former name of a magazine once known as CoEvolution Quarterly and now known as Whole Earth. ...
He spends much of his time in Northern California, but lives in Seattle with his girlfriend, Stranger columnist Erica C. Barnett[22][23]. City nickname Emerald City City bird Great Blue Heron City flower Dahlia City mottos The City of Flowers The City of Goodwill City song Seattle, the Peerless City Mayor Greg Nickels County King County Area - Total - Land - Water - % water 369. ...
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References
- ^ Silja J.A. Talvi: Blog Wild Conscious Choice Seattle, October 2005
- ^ http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/feb2008/id20080211_959496.htm
- ^ http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/magazine/16-06/sb_carbon
- ^ BlogPulse Tools | Profiles Overview
- ^ Nielsen BuzzMetrics :: The Global Measurement Standard in Consumer-Generated Media
- ^ WorldChanging Canada: Changer le monde!
- ^ http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008167.html
- ^ http://www.hnabooks.com/category/show/169
- ^ Bruce Nussbaum: Best Innovation and Design Books for 2006. We looked past obvious titles to compile a list of books that will inform the thinking about innovation beyond this year BusinessWeek.com, December 6, 2006
- ^ http://www.worldchanging.com/archives//007183.html
- ^ http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/007046.html
- ^ worldchanging | NetSquared, a project of TechSoup.org
- ^ WorldChanging: Award-Winning Solutions Journalism
- ^ Go bright green | Review | Guardian Unlimited Books
- ^ http://noimpactman.typepad.com/blog/2008/03/how-i-dont-blow.html
- ^ http://www.worldchanging.com/archives//007919.html
- ^ http://www.thelavinagency.com/canada/alexsteffen.html
- ^ Rotman magazine, Spring, 2008 issue, page 79
- ^ Books Calendar: Politics and humor (Seattle Weekly)
- ^ http://www.thelavinagency.com/articles_covers/Steffen/steffen-nytimes.pdf
- ^ WorldChanging: Award-Winning Solutions Journalism
- ^ http://www.worldchanging.com/archives//005744.html
- ^ http://www.worldchanging.com/bios/alex.html
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