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Getting caught up in the minutiae of your building projects?
Worried that you're not making a difference? If you need a reminder
of the inter-connectedness of the design profession, this book will
get your mind spinning. Published this past fall,
Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century, has
garnered international attention and peaked at number 14 on
the amazon.com bestseller list.
Sustainable building design is sprinkled throughout this compendium
of solutions for a bright green world. More importantly, consider
the many extensions of the built environment while flipping the
nearly 600 pages. From planning cities (and mega-cities) to the
computers that will hum in your buildings, these Worldchanging
ideas illustrate the many ways we can, and already are, solving our
environmental and social crises.
The book is an extension of a successful Web
site and blog dedicated to solutions for a better world. The
site and book bring together experts from various industries that
are working on sustainable practices. Editor Alex Steffen divides
the book into seven sections that represent a light-to-dark green
agenda—stuff, shelter, cities, community, business, politics,
and the planet.
Business Week called it one of the Best Innovation and
Design Books of 2006, noting that the book “gives us the tools
to get to a green economy and society. Green tech and green growth
will be very ‘07.” (Read the Business Week review here).
Wired magazine described the book as “a
comprehensive, cohesive vision for sustainability that feels
perfectly in sync with the times. … If Worldchanging
is any indicator, the new green movement is globally aware,
technically savvy, design conscious and, above all,
optimistic.”
Noted writer Bill McKibben assesses Worldchanging and
several other new books in this New York Review of Books
piece.
Jared Silliker is a senior analyst at The Cadmus Group, an
environmental consulting firm. His focus is energy efficiency, and
he works with the architecture community to encourage high
performance building designs.
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