Transforming Cultures

Is Sustainability Still Possible? The conversation continues at sustainabilitypossible.org.

Wrapping up the year, the Transforming Cultures blog, and sharing my thanks!

Worldwatch Europe’s new report provides valuable insights into how to turn our consumer kids into guardians of sustainable living.

Here’s a little lesson on how we don’t need magic to build community, we just have to see the world a bit differently.

Gangnam Style has taken the world by storm, and with it, so has a celebration of the hyper consumeristic lifestyle. It’s time for a new video that celebrates political action and simple living. Yes, we’re talking “Gandhi Style.”

Design Strategist Ann Thorpe looks at four ways designers are changing how we consume.

Venice hosted the recent international degrowth conference, which only makes sense as either the global economy degrows or Venice goes under.

Degrowth is coming, whether we want it or not. But for the entrepreneurial, here are some ways to profit from the transition.

What do you get when a team of anthropologists team up to study the stuff found in the homes of 32 American families?

UNESCO Catalunya has just produced a youth edition of Transforming Cultures: From Consumerism to Sustainability in 4 languages. Check it out!

The new Story of Stuff Project film “The Story of Change” is out! And reminds us that we can’t consume our way to a sustainable society, but we’ll need to flex our citizen muscles and take political action.

Are Chinese environmentalists “waking the green tiger” or just protesting brown issues?

Often the most creative form of advertising these days is anti-advertising.

Celebrate World Environment Day by organizing a game of Catan: Oil Springs, and have fun wrestling with environmental challenges!

Let’s offer thanks to the Earth for lending us the wisdom and passion of Ernest Callenbach.

Tomorrow is Earth Day–what better way to celebrate than to nap, work less, and spend time with friends?

To achieve sustainable prosperity, overdeveloped countries will need to degrow their economies. And fast.

B corporations may be the start of a business revolution–one that prioritizes the planet and people and not just profit.

Should people pool funds to buy ads for social change? Or should they simply co-opt them to get their messages out?

More companies are embedding greenwash into their marketing campaigns–including the 70 companies that have lined up to cash in on the classic Dr. Seuss eco-fable The Lorax.

Chris Jordan continues to make bold art with deep sustainability themes, including a new look at plastic pollution of the oceans with Gyre II.