Happy Birthday WorldChanging  

It's WorldChanging's third birthday - hopefully they will be around for a long time into the future.

They include a list of highlights - to which I'd add The Post Oil Megacity, The Green Revolution (On Earth Day) and Postcards from the Global Food System.

It's quite odd, actually, to think that it's only been three years since we put up our first post (about Jim Moore's essay, The Second Superpower). That seems an age ago.

Looking back, though, it's amazing how well the stories we wrote that first month have anticipated the work we've done in the three years since, with pieces on Corruption and Transparency International, the Thai Bio-Solar House, the Earth Simulator, Organic Photovoltaics, Open Source and the Developing World. the Public Library of Science, Open Source Biology, Car-Free Cities, Creative Commons and Copyleft, Biomimicry, "Soft Paths" for Water, Solar Power in the Developing World, Knowing Nature Through Technology, Reducing Poverty and Greening Mega-Cities, The Ethics of Nanotechnology, Sustainable Business, MySociety, WiFi in the Himalayas and Ecological Economics.

It's also amazing to see how quickly many ideas we once thought fringe have moved so quickly into the mainstream. Sustainability, social change, collaborative innovation and emerging technologies are all popular concerns now. The Worldchanging community has had at least some small part in helping create that change.