Doors 9 Conference : Alex Steffen & Sarah Rich (Worldchanging)

Everything needs to change. We inherited a broken future. We are living in the middle of an ecological nightmare. It’s affecting our everyday life. We’re stetching nature to the limit. We are now on global overshoot.
We also live on a very young planet, 4 billion people below poverty and wanting development. Images of prosperity are helping this along.200 million people are environmental immigrants to be.
The consequences are not only predictable but predicted. We have to start to demand the unimaginable.

Worldchanging is a group of 3 people with 25 international writers who are reporting back their findings about the world.

We are scratching the surface of the technological possibilities (wind energy, solar, green housing)

We have to change quickly though, we have to learn in new ways. Here are some ideas:

eg. -Netflix is using a service structure that is a sustainable model.
-Cities are good tools for dematerilisation, when their structures are encouraging effective use.
-Zefrank’s earth sandwich. Adding precision to proximity allows life to be more sustainable.
-Garbage is something that hasnt found the right owner yet.
-Car sharing with Streetcar.The environmental savings are huge. They are more efficient in their trip planning. Services can be used more efficiently or products can become services eg tools.
-Measuring things changes the way we use them, imagine ecological nutrition labels on every object.
-We can share our findings with the developing countries and give them the tools to develop their own greener tools.
-Plumpy nut a is a peanut butter tasting food that helps starving children eat their way back to health.

Another possible solution:
seedPOD: scenaric fiction and NGO of the future. As the climate changes the crop yields will change dramatically and quickly. Seed vault: a lab that is collecting all the seeds of the world at the moment to make sure we have a sample of everything in cases of catastrophes . Wikiseedia ; local food, global commons; food culture is part of agriculture; farm to table networks.

The cover of their book changes as you use it and the pattern of the slip cover rubs off on the book, showing change as your actions increase.