“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”

“The spark that ignited their partnership was provided by Mr. Wozniak’s mother. Mr. Wozniak had graduated from high school and enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, when she sent him an article from the October 1971 issue of Esquire magazine. The article, “Secrets of the Little Blue Box,” by Ron Rosenbaum, detailed an underground [...]

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MIT Sustainability Summit

Taking a break from the usual today and attending the MIT Sustainability Summit The MIT Sustainability Summit, Discovering New Dimensions for Growth, brings together students, engineers, business leaders, academics, environmental activists, and public servants to discuss how we can most effectively support each other as we face the opportunities and challenges of transitioning to a sustainable [...]

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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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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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It’s dangerous for you to be here

Some thread-pulling on my part to weave together the thoughts whirling around in my head. In the movie “My Blue Heaven,” Steve Martin’s character (Vinnie) says to Shaldeen (Carol Kane): “You know, it’s dangerous for you to be here in the frozen food section.” Shaldeen: Why is that? Vinnie: Because you could melt all this [...]

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