Worldchanging: A Users Guide for the 21st Century is a compendium of innovative ideas and inventions emerging today for building a sustainable, livable, prosperous future. It is a great book. But don't take my word for it, i'm biased. I contributed to it (just a tiny chapter) and i'm convinced that its editor, Alex Steffen, is one of the nicest, smartest and most honest guys you could ever stumble upon (nice eyeglasses as well!)

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An American Renaissance GemHow an industrialist and his unlikely team built a Miami marvelThe Wall Street Journal, December 9, 2006; Page P13By John Massengale VizcayaBy Witold Rybczynski and Laurie OlinPenn Press, 274 pages, $34.95 Some of our greatest buildings are not as well known as they should be. How many...

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