Our friends over at Worldchanging are counting the hours until the release of their new book. Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century will hit the shelves on November 1 (it's available for preorder right now from Amazon), and we're looking forward to checking it out. The book begins with a foreward from Al Gore and an introduction by Bruce Sterling, followed by 600 pages of innovative ideas for creating a bright green future, divided into seven main chapters:
- Stuff covers topics like green design, reducing one's ecological footprint, biomimicry, sustainable agriculture, clothing, cars and emerging technologies.
- Shelter includes topics like green building and landscaping, bright green home decor, clean energy, sustainable water systems, disaster relief and humanitarian design.
- Cities tackles smart growth, sustainable communities, transportation, greening infrastructure, product-service systems, leapfrogging and megacity challenges.
- Communities coverse education, women's rights, public health, holistic approaches to community development, copyleft, South-South science, social entrepreneurship and micro-lending, and philanthropy.
- Business takes on socially responsible investment, worldchanging start-ups, ecological economics, corporate social responsibility and green business.
- Politics offers their take on networked politics, new media, transparency, human rights, non-violent revolution and peacemaking, and
- Planet looks at the big picture -- everything from placing oneself in a bioregion to climate foresight to environmental history to green space exploration.
Good stuff! After the launch, the Worldchanging team is headed out on a six-week tour of the US and Canada, through 15 cities; they'll be hitting New York, San Francisco, Toronto, L.A., Chicago, Vancouver, Portland, D.C., The Twin Cities, Austin and Denver (as well as holding an event here in Seattle).
In each place, the WC team will be giving talks and parties to celebrate not only the book, but also the local community of people and organizations who are engaged in worldchanging work, and it sounds like it'll be a great time. Order your copy today, and help support our friends who are changing the world. [Worldchanging: The Book] and [Worldchanging: The Book Tour]