An audio exploration of Tree Sound and Rock Star Farms worth sharing. Paul Diaz: “I was just joking with a friend of mine who is a hip-hop producer and I was like, Dude, you’re a hip-hop producer and I am a beet farmer…” Hip-Hop and environmental action. Tree Sound Studios in Atlanta combine both, so [...]
Van Jones is an eco-visionary, award-winning human rights attorney and powerhouse speaker. He is the founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights (EBC), a strategy and action center, working for justice, peace, and opportunity in urban America. He has served on the boards of numerous environmental and nonprofit organizations, including the National Apollo [...]
by Dana Sagona – 12.31.09 Developing countries are often plagued with unreliable energy sources, a niche a new Berkeley, Calif.-based startup is working to fill. Point Source Power is working to help provide off-the-grid electricity to some of the 1.6 billion people worldwide who don’t currently have access to it. “We think part of the solution [...]
02.08.2010 – AUSTIN, Texas – Most American educators are familiar with Qwizdom’s interactive classroom technology, but only those attending the Texas Computer Education Association Conference this February will have the unique opportunity to squeeze in hands-on time with the company’s newest hardware release – the Q6 student response system.Available for pre-order in late march of [...]
Indulis Burka 17.10.2008. 17:28 M. Brimmerbergas Pļaviņu vidusskolas skolotāji šobrīd apgūst, kā lietot balsošanas pultis, lai ievērojami atvieglotu pārbaudes darbu veikšanu. Visus rezultātus reģistrē dators un nekavējoties apkopo rezultātus. (Click here to view google translation) M. Brimmerbergas Pļaviņu vidusskolas direktors Vladimirs Samohins stāsta, ka elektroniskā balsošanas sistēma izvēlēta, lai modernizētu mācību procesu un, izmantojot modernās [...]
Our “Forwarding Dallas” project for Urban Re:Vision made the Greek and English versions of Kathimerini (Greek & Cypriot IHT) as one of the top “trendsetters” of 2010: ΑΣΤΙΚΟ ΠΕΡΙΒΑΛΛΟΝ Πράσινο, το νέο γκρι Κατ’ αρχήν δεν θα έπρεπε να μιλάμε για «πράσινα» κτίρια. Θα έπρεπε να θεωρείται αυτονόητο πια στην αρχιτεκτονική πως κάθε καινούργια κατασκευή [...]
Award-winning identical Fullerton twin authors Brianna and Brittany Winner, who wrote the novel “The Strand Prophecy” along with their father, Jeff, announced the start of their national tour, “If You Can Dream It, You Can Write It!” at a school assembly tour to promote reading and writing in elementary and secondary schools. The 13-year-old co-authors told the students [...]
So what do you do when you have 16 inches of snow, no power, no internet, no heat, very few candles, no extra batteries and no ability to hop in the car and go buy supplies? This weekend in Western North Carolina, I was again reminded that social media is transforming our world for the [...]
Forwarding Dallas Earlier this year, Dwell editor Aaron Britt traveled down to Dallas, Texas, for a design charrette with Re:Vision Dallas. The project is a collaboration between Urban Re:Vision and the Central Dallas Community Development Corporation that aims to turn a downtown Dallas city block into a beacon of sustainable building and urban design. In [...]
America’s primary global advantage is entrepreneurial innovation. I believe that if you were to rank all nations for the output volume of quality innovative ideas and systems, Denmark would join the USA in the top 5 exporters of creativity worldwide. Then I check our twitter account for the Cleantech Open, a new client with an extraordinary [...]
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (October 28, 2009) — The Cleantech Open announced William Weihl, Green Energy Czar at Google, will present the keynote address during the “Academy Awards of Cleantech” Awards Gala at The Masonic Center in San Francisco on November 17, 2009. As the Green Energy Czar at Google, Weihl leads efforts in energy efficiency and [...]
Denis Du Bois: “Excitement…fear. Opportunity…risk. Urgency… indifference.” Pacific Northwest Clean Tech Open Co-chair Byron McCann opened last night’s regional awards ceremony with a dramatized series of opposites. It fit, because the theme of the evening was contrast and anachronism. The region’s hottest new technologies were showcased in Seattle’s second-oldest theater. Our governor headlined the ceremony [...]
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