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NovemberNov 9 Sunday 08
Good: Get your volunteer on
A great video from one of my favourite publications,Good Magazine which shows the impact of volunteerism - based on US stats but meaningful where ever you live....
The Wisdom Book
I think that this book is remarkable .... and I want one immediately. Andrew Zuckerman has created this Wisdom Book. Highly original, beautiful and fresh. Take a look....
Thinking Through Art
A fantastic research project through the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is looking in detail at teaching through art discussion. Great resources on the site, including all the research and lots of lesson plans.
Additional Programmes:
Learning Through Art at …
NovemberNov 8 Saturday 08
Being Capable
A friend of mine recently visited Atlantic College in Wales. She was pretty impressed altogether, but what she wanted to talk about most was the service programme that they run for the students. This service programme isn't just about students extending time and …
Algae Art
"Green algae can produce hydrogen gas, H2, in a process called "biophotolysis" or "photobiological hydrogen production." This process is carried out by photosynthetic enzymes, which split water to obtain electrons, excite these electrons with photons, and eventually …
Incomplete Manifesto
Written in 1998, the Incomplete Manifesto is an articulation of statements exemplifying Bruce Mau's beliefs, strategies and motivations. To read all 43 points click here.
NovemberNov 6 Thursday 08
Marking Obama's Big Day
Khoi Vinh delighted to find people stretching down the street to buy a copy of the paper with Obama's win yesterday. Beautiful pic Khoi! For a look at the front pages of the world's newspaper's yesterday click here.
Wanted to share a JFK quote that David Barrie …
An Amazing Woman for Peace Town
Youth worker Nelsa Libertad Curbelo Cora describes the inspiration behind Barrio de Paz (Peace Town), a non-violent youth movement in Guyaquil, Ecuador. Barrio de Paz brings together street gangs to provide services to the struggling community. Gang members band …
NovemberNov 2 Sunday 08
The Insights of Many
I am enchanted by this beautiful project by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, photographer of the 'Earth from Above'. 6 Billion Others has recorded the interview portraits of thousands of people from around the world.
Emergency Response Studio
Artist Paul Villinski's Emergency Response Studio is a mobile, solar-powered artist's studio built using an old trailer and aiming to highlight the possibilities of off-grid living and shedworking as well as provide artists with something useable in post-disaster …
NovemberNov 1 Saturday 08
Interrogating Public Space
Cool title? James David sent me this interview with Fritz Haeg, which talks, among other things, about his Edible Estates project. For each "estate", Haeg and his team of volunteers create an elaborate vegetable garden in a front lawn. These public displays disrupt …
Pimp my riot van
MTV, the Metropolitan Police and Urban Youth Charity XLP have got together to 'pimp' a Police riot van and turn it into a mobile community music unit.
Reported on by the excellent Sense Media, a youth led social enterprise run by volunteers.
OctoberOct 30 Thursday 08
Multicolr
Amazing Flickr tool that I keep getting sucked into for hours!
Idee Lab's Multicolr search tool lets you add up to 10 colour combinations, or repeat a colour to have more of it in the picture.
If, like me, you always put the crayons back in the packet in the …
OctoberOct 28 Tuesday 08
Creativity, fulfilment and flow
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi wrote an incredible book called Flow and TED have just posted his talk. Flow includes a body of inspiring research into what brings us fulfilment and joy and will make you reconsider the creative wonders of fulfiling work, and the satisfaction …
Aesthetically Pleasing as Art
This Rainwater Harvester / Greywater System Feedback loop is as beautiful as any piece of art to me.
"It is is a water saving system made from salvaged materials. It stores two types of water-water that normally runs away while becoming hot and rain water. The …
Victory Gardens
Victory Gardens is a pilot project funded by the City of San
Francisco to support the transition of backyard, front yard, window boxes, rooftops, and unused land into organic food production areas.
Interesting, but not as exciting in my opinion as the dott07 Urban …
OctoberOct 27 Monday 08
Testing, testing, testing
When I was in California earlier this month one of the things that teachers really complained about was the No Child Left Behind Act. In America this act has now been in force since 2001 and teachers are now counting the educational costs of implementation. NCLB …
The Video Republic
In a fascinating new report by Demos, the Video Republic examines how video is giving young people the tools of democratic participation. The report looks at how the Video Republic, as they described it, is giving young people a new place to debate, a new basis for …
OctoberOct 24 Friday 08
For Sale
Are you a high octane, fast living, hard playing type with a really good pair of dark shades?
Then this could be the house for you.
As the seller says, it's an abode for 'extreme living'.