Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century

A doorstop toolkit of ideas for a sustainable future — biomimicry, green chemistry, sharing systems, adaptive reuse and more. A sprawling atlas of the SDF's Sustainability motto at the Frontier, where design pushes against the world's hardest problems. Compiled by Worldchanging.com founder Alex Steffen with contributions from figures such as Cameron Sinclair of Architecture for Humanity, Ethan Zuckerman and food writer Anne Lappé, the book gathers solutions, ideas and inventions already emerging for building a more sustainable, livable and prosperous future. Its chapters work through practical questions, from why buying local food matters to how workplaces, travel, cities and schools can be redesigned along more sustainable lines. First published in 2006, it was later revised and updated to include newer sustainability trends and technologies.