This month, Bruce Sterling posted the last Viridian Note, and seeing as the gist of this blog was born in the Viridian Movement, I wanted give props. (It’s worth your time to enjoy this Note, either way, but if you haven’t yet been exposed to Viridian, it would be perhaps be just as edifying and entertaining to read the very first note, or the manifesto. Yeah, every movement has to have a manifesto!)

Recent events have clearly established that the character of the times has changed. The Viridian Design Movement was founded in distant 1999. After the years transpiring – various disasters, wars, financial collapses and a major change in political tone – the world has become a different place.

It remains only to close the Viridian episode gracefully, and to conclude with a few meditative suggestions.

If you read it all the way through, I would be curious to hear your thoughts.

After Nov. 4, Worldchanging, Viridian Movement’s most visible offshoot on the web, launched Inaugurate Change, a call for the incoming administration to set the nation on a course to carbon neutrality by 2030. It’s a call to the Viridian ideal:

The things we must create to fight climate change are also the things we need to generate a strong economic recovery: livable cities, clean energy, green jobs, new technologies, better transportation, healthy forests and thriving family farms.

And if you are still at all skeptical that the times have changed, it is worth considering this humble little form on a new web site called change.gov.

The government coming into power now has an active videoblog, and it wants to hear from you.

Energy & Environment Form on change.gov

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