"I love that you've brought this to attention. An extensive database of uncommon but resistant and hardy plants/foods could be developed and organized by climate. Ease of growth and processing should also be taken in to account. I will try to…"
A crash course in changing the world.
Social Innovator: Alex Steffan
The Social Innovator that I've chosen to shadow is Alex Steffen, Executive Editor and Co-Founder of Worldchanging.com. I have been following Alex and his work for at least three years through many sources:
With insights like that, Alex is an easy choice for shadowing, So here
is another quote describing his work:
- his personal twitter account,
- the Worldchanging twitter account,
- and the Worldchanging RSS Feed.
We keep designing simple, silo-ed solutions to address aspects of an
interconnected, complex problem, then complaining nothing's working.
interconnected, complex problem, then complaining nothing's working.
With insights like that, Alex is an easy choice for shadowing, So here
is another quote describing his work:
"We find ourselves facing two futures, one unthinkable and the other
currently unimaginable," says Steffen, "My beat is looking for ways to
create a future which is sustainable, dynamic, prosperous and fair -- a
future which is both bright and green. WorldChanging is based on the
premise that such a future is not a distant possibility, but a growing
reality. We seek to connect worldchanging people with the tools, models
and ideas for building it."
currently unimaginable," says Steffen, "My beat is looking for ways to
create a future which is sustainable, dynamic, prosperous and fair -- a
future which is both bright and green. WorldChanging is based on the
premise that such a future is not a distant possibility, but a growing
reality. We seek to connect worldchanging people with the tools, models
and ideas for building it."
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Comment by Andrew on March 9, 2010 at 4:14pm
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thanks for sharing this. worldchanging.com is the kind of social innovation think tank im interested in doing.
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Comment by Jerry Rae Leyland on March 9, 2010 at 4:18pm
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Amazing! We keep trying to simplify our problems. This may work in some cases, but in others we need to see how the different components link with eachother and how changes in either could effect the other.
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