It's not just enough to survive. We've got to make something better than what we've got.

Powerful people doing bad things LIKE cynical, despairing citizens.

Cities generate most of the global economy, and most of its energy use, resource demands and climate emissions. How we build cities over the next decades will largely determine whether we can deliver a bright green future.

The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected - it's one big problem, which is that the way we're doing things can't go on.

In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.

There is no such thing as garbage, just useful stuff in the wrong place.

At its very heart, Worldchanging is about using the best of people's new ideas, bringing them together and applying them to the massive problems that we all face.