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Ethan Zuckerman
Bright Green Technology for the Developing World
Ethan Zuckerman, a social activist and internet entrepreneur on a mission to bring information technology to developing countries, speaks with WIE’s Ross Robertson about the complex challenges—and untapped potential—of creating a truly sustainable, equitable, and interconnected world.
Roger Cox
A Sustainable Transformation
Dutch lawyer and environmental activist Roger Cox speaks to EnlightenNext about an impressive project he’s spearheading to transform the Netherlands into the world’s first fully sustainable nation.
Michael Zimmerman
Integral Environmentalism
Integral ecologist Michael Zimmerman speaks with WIE editor Ross Robertson about the “bright green” movement, a transformative approach to environmentalism that offers a fuller and more hopeful way to respond to the global ecological challenges we face.
Articles
Designing Utopia
All over the world, designers are becoming optimists, working together on new solutions to the planet’s worst crises
Issue 32
Discovering Fire
The coming revolution in energy
What happens when the oil runs dry? Petersen explains
that we already have a perfect alternative available today and
envisions a future in which we freely access the latent energy
within empty space itself.
Issue 29
The Business of Saving the World
Can capitalism become a force for a new global consciousness?
Innovative organizational change makers—and their corporate counterparts—are tackling one of the most complex problems facing
humanity: the urgent need for big business to evolve from being a profit–driven
machine to a living system working for the future of the planet.
Issue 28
Will Spring and Summer No Longer Come?
The future demands a new worldview
WIE's Elizabeth Debold spoke with systems theory
pioneer Dr. Ervin Laszlo about his vision for the future of the
planet and of a new paradigm of universal
interconnectedness.
Issue 26
The Breaking Point
An evolutionary activist warns us that the fragile systems of our biosphere and global human community are rapidly nearing “the breaking point.”
Issue 19