When you're done twiddling your thumbs staring out the window thinking about your own earth shattering way to change the world, you should be browsing PopTech's Pop!Casts collection-- watching every single video, one at a time, becoming more educated and…
Continue Reading →Marco Monteiro in Sao Paulo pointed us to a clever guerilla campaign by environmental group 50 Graus that happened over the weekend in the city's popular Ibirapuera Park. The group "installed" ice sculptures of penguins on the grass to call…
Continue Reading →One of the newer, more young-spirited cultural spaces in Sao Paulo, Escola Sao Paulo fills a niche that's important to a city whose artists have been gaining more worldwide attention in the last few years. It's an informal school that…
Continue Reading →I think by now everyone has probably noticed the incredible coverage coming out of Sao Paulo from our newest on-the-ground correspondent and site contributor, Phuong-Cac. Phuong-Cac Nguyen is a Los Angeles transplant currently calling dynamic Sao Paulo, Brazil, her new…
Continue Reading →While I'm sure most of our energy-savvy readers have already replaced their regular lightbulbs with the near-magical power of CFL's (compact flourescent lightbulbs), research is currently showing that sales of these earth-savers are only timidly increasing. CFL's use only one-third…
Continue Reading →As "green" becomes the new "red, white and blue," we've been seeing a lot of innovative ideas that work conservation ideals into our daily lives. Greenprint is another such idea-- it's a software program that scans documents queued to print…
Continue Reading →Last year I wrote about the Invisible Children in war torn Uganda. Josh was moved and immediately pledged his support. On April 28th, in 15 cities across the U.S., thousands of people are leaving their homes for camps in a…
Continue Reading →At long last the talks of TED Prize Winners, President Bill Clinton, EO Wilson and James Nachtwey are available online for your viewing pleasure. I've embedded James Nachtwey's talk here about his decades as a photo journalist-- my favorite of…
Continue Reading →Because we received so much feedback from the original post, I felt compelled to inform you all that Yang Wu and Wu Ping have succumb to the Chinese Government and the real estate developer that will build a shopping mall…
Continue Reading →There's something about this Jason Calcanis interview of Ted Murphy (founder of PayPerPost) that makes us cringe. The very idea of masking paid product placements as genuine blog posts flies squarely in the face of what we as writers and…
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