Worldchanging
Worldchanging.com is a non-profit online magazine and blog about sustainability and social innovation.
Worldchanging publishes a mix of essays and interviews; shorter original reviews, letters from the field (conference reports, lab visits, notes from correspondents' travels) and think-pieces; and blog posts "highlighting the best coverage of new ideas and innovations from around the Web." From time to time, the site posts radio-style podcasts as well.
Worldchanging's content is divided in to seven sections: stuff, shelter, cities, community, business, politics, and planet. This taxonomy is designed to parse solutions based on their proximity to the reader, so that on one extreme Stuff is mostly about innovations in product design, food, clothing, and other objects used directly by individual people, while on the other extreme Planet encompasses global environmental and social issues, scientific advances and new thinking about the future of humanity.
The site has won or been nominated for the following awards and prizes:
- 2005, won the Utne Independent Press Award.
- 2006, finalist for a Webby for Best Blog.
- 2007, finalist for a Webby for Best Magazine, as well as for Bloggie awards for Best Group Weblog and Best Writing for a Weblog; won the Green Prize for Sustainable Literature for its book; won Organic Design Award. Prix Ars Electronica nominee.
- 2008, named a Webby Official Honoree.
Worldchanging is, according to several sites, one of the most popular blogs in the world, and was rated the second largest sustainability site on the web by Nielsen Online in 2008 as well as being named one of the world's top 15 environmental websites by Time Magazine.
On November 29, 2010, Worldchanging announced on its blog that it would be closing its doors due to a lack of firm funding.
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