Got me a good book at the Bookmarks bookstore in the Confederation Centre Mall. It was the 600-page collection of stuff written at the Worldchanging.com web community. They compared it to the Whole Earth Catalog, and I think that holds water.
Lots of info on green energy. Small and huge solutions. Today I read about biomimicry, Stirling engines, and stove innovations that improve quality of life in third-world countries. The book also had a chapter on Finnish school systems and such.
Bonus link to : Nick Taylor’s blog IkoStar is very much about those “fix the world” issues. Also: reflections on music (using lots of YouTube videos) and life in general. The green tech posts are the most factsy ones, though.
Funny, in that same bookstore I took a picture of the Worldchanging book, because I know some of the people that contributed to it. Still got it on my phone.
Funny you bought it there.
By: Ton Zijlstra on October 21, 2008
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