February 2012
21 posts
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“Slow design’? Since its inception, slowLab has pondered the potential of...”
– slowLab > slow design
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Making The Case For Resilient Design : TreeHugger →
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“An international group of scientists has analyzed the DNA of primitive...”
– Plants may have a single ancestor
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The Quantum Universe: Why Anything That Can Happen... →
On my reading list. This should finally explain Lost.
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How a Village Became a Hub for Resilience and Rock... →
Read it. Get inspired. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for!
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A conversation on TED.com: THE CITY 2.0 – EVOLVED... →
Always provocative, Rachel Armstrong holds open possibilities beyond our current, built, mechanistic, landscapes. What happens if we really own our place on the planet as evolutionary architects?
Five Tips for Creating Learning Spaces that Lead... →
humanscaleschools:
1. Empower everyone to be learners and teachers
The children, adult facilitators, and community volunteers are all encouraged to be both learners and teachers. For children, this may mean recognizing that a peer struggles in a certain subject or at a certain game, and stepping in to give them a hand.
For the adult facilitators, it means an in-depth training session that...
Why the Places We Live Make Us Happy →
“What IF schools created a culture of “DO” instead of a culture of...”
– What If Schools Created a Culture of “Do” INSTEAD of a Culture of “Know?” - The Tempered Radical
“The Born This Way Foundation, a non-profit charitable organization, will address...”
– Lady Gaga to Launch Born This Way Foundation | Harvard Graduate School of Education
January 2012
25 posts
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The Changing American Dream →
Very interesting information about different generations in the United States and their views on “the American Dream.” Presented in an accessible infographic.
FarmPlate Creates Nation's Largest Sustainable,... →
Imagine being able to tailor Google to search specifically for sustainable food suppliers or restaurants and socially-minded companies in your area. That’s pretty much what a new online marketplace, FarmPlate.com, does.
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Piscataquis Village Project →
“This proposal is to create a compact, car-free, village of 125 acres, on a site totaling 500 acres in southern Piscataquis County [Maine]. Development of the site would be guided by a set of zoning and building covenants specifically composed to create a space, as it is built out, to resemble traditional villages of Europe and early North America, in which foot or bicycle was the primary or...
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Watch(via Frozen Planet: Premiering March 18 : Video : Discovery Channel)
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4 Lessons The Classroom Can Learn From The Design... →
1. A culture of critical collaboration
2. Interdisciplinary problem solving, every day
3. Tinkering with solutions and reclaiming failure
4. The shared power of the pencil and pixel
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A New Sustainable City Rises In Bangladesh →
What exists me in this plan is the attention paid to water! The integration of swales to slow and store water is a big jump ahead in urban planning.
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Designing Spaces for Creative Collaboration →
Interview with Scott Doorley and Scott Witthoft from the Stanford d.school and authors of Make Space: How to Set the Stage for Creative Collaboration.
This interview is a great overview to the theory behind creating optimal creative spaces.
The book is a very handy manual that covers concepts as well as DIY projects to help anyone create their own energized spaces.
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WatchJae takes design principles from permaculture (e.g. produce no waste) to whole new levels. While permaculturalists are always seeking to integrate human systems with natural ones, Jae’s work makes the connections abundantly clear.
In the Infinity Burial Project she challenges us to think about death in new ways by highlighting how we are physically connected to everything else—for...
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You've Heard About Slow Food. What We Really Need... →
The hidden force in our lives—design—has gained rightful recognition of its importance. From fonts to highways, design fundamentally shapes how we interact with the world for better or worse.
So, if we want “slow money” and “slow food,” “slow design” can help shape our environments and systems to actualize the transition.
Imagining Skyscraper Farms - Forbes →
So much I am excited about here. 1st-the design of the learning experience; 2nd-the focus on urban ag.
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WatchPerhaps the most important talk I saw at TEDGlobal last year.
(via Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies | Video on TED.com)
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Soil carbon means WATER to me! →
We can address the twin crises of too much atmospheric CO2 and shrinking fresh water resources (think irrigation) by building the organic content of our soils.
By increasing organic content by only 1% we can sequester 59 tons of CO2 and capture 15,400 gallons of extra water PER ACRE!
i2 institute for imagination and ingenuity →
Beautiful new organization (and design) launched by Dr. Hayat Sindi with help from PopTech! to cultivate inspired entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia. I think this is needed everywhere.
May 2010
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Excerpt From My Master's Thesis
Ecological thinking is a process and extension of character development.
David Orr expressed our dire need for this orientation when he said, “the modern world suffers from moral amnesia, the vague awareness of a deficiency of virtue that we can no longer describe.” (Orr, 2004. P. 60) And, that “virtue…was founded on a kind of moral ecology…an awareness of mutual...
April 2010
4 posts
WatchVirtue is the one thing that can solve all our problems.
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“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come...”
– Howard Thurman
K'naan: Tiny Desk Concert : NPR →
I love K’naan’s message, story, and sound. The piano, guitar, and back-up vocals are smooth, smooth, smooth!