Mark Stevenson's We Do Things Differently is a wonderfully engaging and entertaining book.
It chronicles his trips around the globe to meet the out-of-the-box thinkers and doers who are challenging the status quo and tackling global problems, such as energy, health, disease and education, by inventing new systems and challenging established practices.
Examples of this include Peter Dearman, the British engineer whose clean engine is reinventing refrigeration and batteries, and the Austrian town of Gussing, which has created its own energy supplies.
In a world often dominated by bad news, this book and the work of those it reports on, is not only welcome but also inspiring. It helps restore my faith in a humanity I sometimes feel distanced from.
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