Worldchanging was a nonprofit online publisher that operated from 2003 to 2010.
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13 Facts About Worldchanging
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Worldchanging was launched in October 2003 in San Francisco by Alex Steffen, Jamais Cascio, and a core of initial contributors.
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Worldchanging was overseen by a board of directors, led by Worldchanging's chairman, the environmental photographer Edward Burtynsky until May 2010.
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Worldchanging was supported by grants, book sales, speaker fees and reader donations.
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On November 29,2010, Worldchanging announced that due to fundraising difficulties it would shut down.
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Worldchanging practiced "solutions-based journalism": countering cynicism by highlighting possible solutions to the planet's most pressing problems rather than just reporting on those problems and their causes.
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Worldchanging is a solutions-based online magazine that works from a simple premise: that the tools, models and ideas for building a better future lie all around us.
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Worldchanging summarised Worldchanging's work as taking on "the tougher challenge of charting life on the World *with* us".
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Worldchanging won or was a finalist for the following awards and prizes:.
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In November 2006, Worldchanging published a survey of global innovation, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century with a foreword by Al Gore, design by Stefan Sagmeister, and an introduction by Bruce Sterling.
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Worldchanging found it had a refreshingly pragmatic approach, although he felt it placed a little too much emphasis on the individual over the Government as agents of change.
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Worldchanging, Revised Edition: A User's Guide for the 21st Century was issued in 2011 as a revision with updated technological material, relating to sustainable living, including some 160 new entries relating to food security, sustainable transport, carbon neutrality, ecotourism and updated information on the emerging local food movement.
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Again, it rated well with the general public but, by the time of publication, Worldchanging had ceased operations and the book received virtually no coverage in editorial columns.
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