Sea Of People: NYC
On April 14th, join the masses and head to Battery Park in NYC to participate in the Sea of People, an event which is part of the Step It Up 2007 Campaign, and which has both an environmental activism component…
Continue Reading →Black Turtle Eco-Lodge: Costa Rica
The Black Turtle Lodge in Costa Rica-- an eco-lodge aimed at teaching its guests about the endangered wildlife and eco-system of Costa Rica-- recently teamed up with Xeko Games to help families or couples go on vacation while learning a…
Continue Reading →TESLA Car Dealerships Coming!
Josh and I have been googly eyed over the TESLA Roadster for some time now (I think Josh sat by it during the entire TED Conference last week, and maybe even tried to hold hands with it), but we never…
Continue Reading →Open Architecture Network
The Open Architecture Network is an open source architecture community. It's a network that aims to improve standards of living around the world through collaboration. They pose an interesting answer to an obvious question: How do you improve the living…
Continue Reading →TED 2007: Day 2 Highlights
TED was not only described to me as inspirational, passionate and unique, but also as mind boggling-- sometimes almost exhaustively so. Today started early, I attended the pre-conference breakfast where TED Prize winners from last year updated attendees on their…
Continue Reading →BMW Hydrogen 7: Test Drive
I had the opportunity to take the BMW Hydrogen 7 car for a spin yesterday afternoon with an engineer from BMW in Munich-- something only open to TED attendees. While the experience wasn't exactly life changing, essentially everything inside and…
Continue Reading →The Feral Robotic Dog Project
Natalie Jeremijenko, a loved and non-traditional professor at UCSD (and previously, Yale), has brought her amazing Feral Robotic Dog project to the West coast. This awesomely creative and interesting experiment has students transform old toy robotic dogs into toxin-sniffing, pollution…
Continue Reading →Carbon Neutral Journal
This isn't a post about sneakers, sorry; although Keith Peters did work as a Nike executive for 17 years, where he founded nike.com. Now residing in Jackson Hole, WY, where he runs his own communications company, Keith woke up in…
Continue Reading →Chad Oppenheim's COR: Modern and Green
As green building technologies push forward, we're seeing some great architectural minds push the envelope to create truly inspiring buildings that combine sound design and sustainable technologies. Chad Oppenheim's COR project is setting a great example in the way it…
Continue Reading →The Agrifolk Art Movement: Let the Trees Draw!
We've seen Jonathon Keats' profound conceptual art projects before, and were blown away by their social relevance. The key breakthrough that led to Keats' interest in the Agrifolk Art Movement was made at the MacNamara Foundation on Westport Island in…
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