Alex Steffen, author of Worldchanging speaking at Le Web3

Alex Steffen who has just published The Worldchanging book, "a user's guide to the 21st century" and also behind the great Worldchanging.com blog will talk at le Web3, on monday around noon. I'm so glad Alex could make it. Bruno has more.

Worldchanging: A Users Guide for the 21st Century is a groundbreaking compendium of the most innovative solutions, ideas and inventions emerging today for building a sustainable, livable, prosperous future. From consumer consciousness to a new vision for industry; non-toxic homes to refugee shelters; microfinance to effective philanthropy; socially responsible investing to starting a green business; citizen media to human rights; ecological economics to climate change, this is the most comprehensive, cutting-edge overview to date of what's possible in the near future -- if we decide to make it so.

The book covers:
-"stuff" (green design, biomimicry, sustainable food, clothing, trade and technology go),
-"shelter" (green building and landscaping, clean energy, water, disaster relief and humanitarian design
-cities (smart growth, sustainable communities, transportation, greening infrastructure, product-service systems, leapfrogging and megacity challenges)
-community (education, women's rights, public health, holistic approaches to community development, South-South science, social entrepreneurship and micro-lending, and philanthropy)
-business (socially responsible investment, worldchanging start-ups, ecological economics, corporate social responsibility and green business)
-politics (networked politics, new media, transparency, human rights, non-violent revolution and peacemaking)
-planet (big picture -- everything from placing oneself in a bioregion to climate foresight to environmental history to green space exploration)

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