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Sharing Solutions: An Interview with Alex Steffen of WorldChanging
Here is the transcript I promised last week of an interview with Alex Steffen, Executive Editor of WorldChanging. You can also listen to it on the NetSquared PodcastAlex Steffen: WorldChanging is a non-profit, solutions-based journalism outfit. What we do is essentially look around for the best available solutions to the world's most pressing problems, including environmental sustainability, the need for environmental sustainability, poverty, human rights, democracy-building, ways of dealing with emerging technologies, and so forth. We got started about three-and-a-half years ago. It basically started because there was a small group of us who were working as journalists and consultants and activists, and we all felt that there was plenty of attention being given to trying to raise people's consciousness about the nature and magnitude of the problems, but that there was very little attention given to trying to increase awareness of the kinds of solutions that might be available to us.
Another World is Here: An Interview with Alex Steffen on the NetSquared Podcast
If you don't already read the WorldChanging blog, start now. It's an awesome, solutions-based journalism nonprofit that writes about, "tools, models and ideas for building a bright green future." They also have a book out, WorldChanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century, a 537 page tome that is divided by topic: stuff, shelter, cities, community, business, politics and planet.
I've read up to page 360 (whew), and so far it is my favorite book of the year. It's the kind of book that makes your brain and heart go "ah" because the ideas are so incredible AND do-good, and I'm not saying that just because I write for a WorldChanging Local Blog.
Widgets Working to Save the World: ChipIn & Yahoo/Network for Good Charity Badges
For those of you who followed Beth Kanter's fundraising campaign for the Sharing Foundation using ChipIn, you saw how it can be a powerful tool for nonprofits. ChipIn will even be adding features in January specially designed for nonprofits (full disclosure, I am on their nonprofit advisory board). They have been nominated for a Widget of the Year award on Mashable, but the competition is stiff, and they'll need lots of votes to win. If you'd like to help ChipIn out, click here, scroll down to the bottom of the page, and in the comments box type: "vote: chipin." Correction: Voting for the Social Networking Awards has ended. Here are the winners.
WorldChanging
WorldChanging www.worldchanging.com |
The WorldChanging web site offers news, analysis, and commentary from approximately two dozen writers about innovations that can solve real-world problems and lead to positive social change. |
