Video of Shai Agassi Talking at MIT

MIT World: From IT to Cleantech: New Sources of Innovation Shai Agassi presents an ambitious and dramatic plan to create a battery run car, a system of battery switching stations, and a subscription plan for drivers to buy miles the same way we buy cell phone minutes. Agassi begins at 8 minutes in, talks ~1/2 [...]

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Vertical Farming

“There are huge advantages to feeding people who live in the city, from the city.”

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Ray Anderson

“Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them” —Paul Hawken The Ecology of Commerce In the program guide for TED 2009, the above quotation accompanies the bio of Ray Anderson founder and CEO of Interface and a [...]

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It’s about voice. Have one. (A good one helps)

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Processing WordPress’ Post Content

If you find yourself directly manipulating a WordPress post (say outside of “The Loop” by using query_posts, e.g. query_posts(array(‘category__and’ => array(1,3)));) you may need to do some extra work to get the pretty formatting that WP does for you in things like the_content() and the_excerpt(). Say you have a single post in a local variable [...]

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A Font of Humor

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Small Can Be Big

Why Small Can Be Big SmallCanBeBig.org is a new way to help based on a simple premise: give everyone a more direct, more personal, more local and more shared way to help those in need, and big things can happen. In a single year, it costs the Commonwealth of Massachusetts $47,000 to provide shelter for [...]

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“Democratizing Data” W. David Stephenson’s talk at IgniteBoston 5

David’s keynote presentation at Ignite Boston last night shows examples of the power data transparency, portability and ubiquity can transform government, workplaces and lives. (This video is very shaky at times. I forgot the tripod, its hand-held above a crowd, 20 minutes.)

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Teaching kids the value of re-crafting

Craft Curriculum Empowers Parents, Engages Kids “The pair hosted several series of Future Craft Collective classes for small groups of kids, and feedback from parents and children was highly positive. More than just a sewing class, the series got parents and kids thinking about issues around reducing, reusing and recrafting. Soon, the demand for their [...]

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More With Less

A week ago, during the TED 2009 conference, Ray Anderson’s talk generated a fair amount of discussion. During the talk, Tim O’Reilly offered a summary: “The new civilization = more happiness with less stuff.” This is a theme I’d like to explore. Can we recognize non-traditional examples of doing more with less? In America at [...]

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