February 2012
23 posts
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Seattle to Create Nation’s First Public Food... →
This is fabulous! Portland we can do this too!
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Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms... →
We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such basic values as trust.
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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
