Environmentalist porn

June 4, 2008 9:53 AM

Optimism Filter: What individuals, groups or publications are thinking innovatively about the future of our planet and how to get there?

At this point, I think we can all envision the future of our environment if, heaven help us, nothing changes. So the question is, who is proposing the most interesting, the most promising, the most intelligent, even the most beautiful changes? Who has a vision for a better future?

These can be small scale or large scale ideas, technological or social or other. They can be in any field, and they can be things that are happening now or things that are still many years in the future.

posted by Mender to science & nature (11 comments total)

There is a lot of what you're looking for mixed in among the TED talks. If you're only looking for environmental things you'll still find a lot there, but it's pretty literally about the future of the planet and human beings in a more general way.
posted by Nattie at 9:58 AM on June 4, 2008

The Viridian Movement
posted by Artw at 9:58 AM on June 4, 2008

WorldChanging
posted by jammy at 10:16 AM on June 4, 2008

Rocky Mountain Institute
posted by bricoleur at 10:25 AM on June 4, 2008

Some authors/speakers to look for:

Paul Hawken, David Suzuki, William McDonough, Amory Lovins, Aldo Leopold, Buckminster Fuller, Aldous Huxley, Carl Sagan.

Also the Santa Fe Institute.
posted by mulkey at 11:51 AM on June 4, 2008

It may be worth checking out what James Lovelock is up to.
posted by Artw at 12:02 PM on June 4, 2008

The bioneers! A representative was at an environmental conference I attended last year, talking about some kind of toxin-eating fungus they were developing.
posted by vodkaboots at 1:10 PM on June 4, 2008

Check out these two recent Mefi posts about the intersection of emerging green technology and anti-poverty, employment programs.
posted by lunit at 2:31 PM on June 4, 2008

Project Porchlight.
posted by danwalker at 6:47 PM on June 4, 2008

The Long Now Foundation
posted by jkaczor at 7:35 PM on June 4, 2008

Tomorrow Now - Envisioning the Next 50 Years
posted by Artw at 11:18 AM on June 5, 2008