{"id":1462,"date":"2006-11-27T17:21:56","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T22:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2006\/11\/27\/worldchanging-in-austin\/"},"modified":"2006-11-27T17:21:56","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T22:21:56","slug":"worldchanging-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/worldchanging-in-austin\/","title":{"rendered":"WorldChanging In Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WorldChanging\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/austin.metblogs.com\/archives\/images\/2006\/11\/wcbookad.gif?resize=156%2C308\" width=\"156\" height=\"308\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/worldchanging.com\">WorldChanging<\/a> Book Tour is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookpeople.com\/coe_example.html?EventID=3546\">coming to Austin<\/a> this Wednesday, November 29th at 7pm at BookPeople.<\/p>\n<p>Their mission statement does a pretty good job of describing what they&#8217;re about:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWorldchanging was founded on the idea that real solutions already exist for building the future we want. It&#8217;s just a matter of grabbing hold and getting moving.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Austin&#8217;s own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weblogsky.com\">Jon Lebkowsky<\/a> is one of the contributors to the project and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weblogsky.com\/archives\/001067.html\">blogged about the book<\/a> back in October. There&#8217;s a reception after the BookPeople event next door at the new REI location. Alex Steffen, WorldChanging ring leader, and Bruce Sterling, itinerant Austinite, author and WorldChanging ally, gave a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.auscillate.com\/post\/49\">keynote conversation at SXSW 2005<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So get down there Wednesday night and pick one up as a holiday gift!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WorldChanging Book Tour is coming to Austin this Wednesday, November 29th at 7pm at BookPeople. Their mission statement does a pretty good job of describing what they&#8217;re about: Worldchanging was founded on the idea that real solutions already exist for building the future we want. It&#8217;s just a matter of grabbing hold and getting <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/worldchanging-in-austin\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-nA","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}