by David Adam Photograph: Sinibaldi/Getty Images The head of the UN body charged with leading the fight against climate change has conceded that Barack Obama will face a "revolution" if he commits the US to the deep carbon cuts that scientists and campaigners say are needed. Rajendra Pachauri, head ...

By Suzanne Goldenberg The Coen brothers have applied their slightly off-kilter sensibility to the campaign against America's coal industry, with a new television advertisement debunking the notion of clean coal. The filmmaking brothers, working from a concept and script supplied by the ad makers for...

By Paul Glover The Dark Season closes around Philadelphia. Wolves howl, "Tough times coming!" Young professionals with good jobs study budget cuts, watch stocks flail. Career bureaucrats are laid off; college students wonder who's hiring. Old-timers remember when Philadelphia staggered through the t...

Part study circle, part mutual aid association and part social action group, Social Security Clubs are popping up in communities where people are looking for ways to support each other and take action. In a recent post for OnTheCommons, Chuck Collins discusses this new concept: By Chuck Collins The ...

WorldChanging Team: Part study circle, part mutual aid association and part social action group, Social Security Clubs are popping up in communities where people are looking for......

JCDecaux touted Vélib on the cover of its 2007 annual report [PDF]. by Ben Fried If you've read this BBC story currently making the rounds, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Vélib, Paris's wildly popular bike-share system, has suddenly been afflicted by an epidemic of theft and vandalism that th...

Image credit: Wikipedia By Alex Stonehill of the Common Language Project With the country sliding into a massive recession, two major foreign wars raging, federal investigators uncovering a series of juicy political scandals, and our first black President entering office, it’s hard to imagine the ...

This is the first part of an original piece of science fiction written exclusively for Worldchanging by author Madeline Ashby. The story imagines a series of futuristic technologies, and explores ways their application might impact society and human life. The story first ran as a miniseries on World...

Worldchanging ally Junko Edahiro, founder of the NGO Japan for Sustainability, delivered a presentation about Japanese citizen and NGO action in October at the China-Japan High Level Forum on Energy Saving and Environmental Protection Policies, hosted by the Development Research Center, State Counci...

Image credit: Flickr/jmtimages by Suzanne Goldenberg (Click here to view the video component to this post) Barack Obama is raising expectations of swift action on the environment - possibly within his first few days in the White House. At one of two green balls for this year's inauguration, environm...