I’ll be posting at Core77 this year, starting with this observation about some of my favorite people and their addiction AND repulsion to social media:
In her annual Christmas Message, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlandswarned of the dangers of too much virtual friend making. She encouraged people to put down their phones and laptops and re-establish physical [...]
Dec 18, 2009 -
Take a look at your meal. I’m looking at mushroom ravioli, parsley, olive oil, Italian bread, and parmesan cheese. But I can’t accurately tell you where these tasty food items come from, how far or wide reaching their impact. I do not know my meal’s “foodprint,” a concept discussed at last weekend’s [...]
Dec 17, 2009 -
Foursquare is open for business at the right price for mom and pop and larger businesses that want the benefit from a highly localized social network. For those that haven’t heard of Foursquare, the company describes itself as “50% friend-finder, 30% social cityguide, 20% nightlife game.” The mobile-based social network is currently [...]
Dec 07, 2009 -
Most non-governmental aid organizations like UNICEF rely on hand-written, hand-collected data and forms, sent to country capitols, and entered into national databases. Months pass before information is fully recorded and transmitted back to those who make decisions about critical food distribution, medicine, and other life-supporting help.
UNICEF’s innovation team is changing the way [...]
Government Plays VC in CleanTech
Oct 28, 2009 - If we can get three home runs, that’s terrific,” announced Steven Chu, the DOE Secretary at a press conference on Monday, October 26 at Google’s campus in Mountain View, CA. Chu was at Google to deliver 37 energy technology projects funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy program [...]
Recent Posts for Inhabitat at OpenForum.com inspired by my travels and conversations with people in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. From VC and Google focus on smart home energy meters, to SF’s new composting bins, the smart money is on individual, personal behavior change:
Compost or Pay: The Journey to Zero Waste
Oct 25, 2009 - San Francisco [...]
The crowd may save us, and the crowd may also pop the balloon of high wages in creative industries, according to John Winsor writing for Business Week online.
Posted over at Core77…
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We talk about that which is not documented in LCA - human impacts beyond just health. Social impacts are the 3rd leg of the triple bottom line, that which cannot be easily measured. Today’s class: A little history of the labor movement, activism to expose overseas factory conditions, leading to a rousing discussion on the [...]
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